3.0 Conclusions We have control over education, but education is not what leads to infertility. It is urbanization that leads the average woman to halt reproduction. Fertility and birth rates are a function of density. If all women were rich and wealthy, many would choose to have babies. Unfortunately, few working woman can afford such luxuries. Since most women are proletarians, most women will either decide not to reproduce or at best contribute a single offspring. This necessarily reduces the birth and fertility rates. When that happens, the population pyramid of a species necessarily overturns. This analysis reinforces the argument raised by Morgan and Engels: a general type of family is associated with a general type of economy. The single, childless proletarian of the urban service economy is the last type of family that we will see. Women will never again go back to having 15 children. Culture (our collective behavior) is indeed a function of economics, and a particular economic arrangement dominates each demographic phase. We have no way of avoiding these relations.
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