Demographic Winter

I thought that it was really interesting how the video Demographic Winter talked about how the population is decreasing. I always thought that the population was increasing and never would have thought we need to have more babies because people are not having enough children. Here are a couple of factors that have led to our society's fertility decline.

• Prosperity-industrial revolution children become or are expensive commodities
• Women's revolution -gender equality, more women in the work force, and women have the opportunity to have careers and are preparing careers over family life
• Sexual revolution- Birth control, cohabitation, and ment can get their sexual gratification by not getting married or having babies
• Divorce revolution-divorced is learned and more families are getting divorced, laws are like "No Fault Divorce" make it easier to people to get divorced

These are some of the reasons why society's fertility is declining and I do believe that it's is important for families to have children so that our Human Capital can increase in our society and so that we can leave a heritage or posterity once we die. But most importantly having children bring true joy and happiness and meaning to our lives. What are your feelings about having children? And what are some of the blessings you have received from having children or being in your family?