From: "Geo" 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> Except that industrialization, which has turned children from assets into
> liabilities, is a last century, not last millenium, issue.  Humanity will
> indeed face a population crisis, but not the sort Malthus, etc., have
> always predicted.

It's not industrialization that made that change, it's the loss of family
living. If your kids stay living at home after say age 18, the extra income
can turn a home from a 100K per year dwelling into a 300 or 400K per year
dwelling. People don't realize how fast you can pay off a mortgage with
grown kids living at home.

Geo. (5 year olds were never much help on a farm)

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