TehMac
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People used to have large families because half of them would be wiped out by the time they were 10.
As a society progresses, it experiences a tremendous boom in population due to new agricultural techniques, industrialization, etc. Any advancement that allows individuals to sustain bigger families. Do you think people weren't having as much sex back in paleolithic times? hell no, they were going at it all the time, but babies that were weak or couldn't be supported were discarded.
The Spartans did this only 2,500 years ago (which is not that long ago at all) in a deliberate attempt to wean out any weak links in their genes.
Anyway, after this initial boom (seen in the medieval age around 1,000) the birth rate levels out, (climate got colder around 1,300 AD) and then booms in staggered levels (agricultural innovation/social stability in Europe circa 1560) and then levels, and then booooooms (agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, circa 1720 AD) and then levels out.
In this modern period, or a period I and a few other scholars call post-modern, families in the West are getting smaller and smaller, if at all. It is the Muslims and non-white immigrants in Europe who are raising large families.
What is rather disturbing is that a lot of these families don't subscribe to Western values (which is a shame considering these values launched the Muslim Golden Age) and reproduce in massive numbers because they believe it is their duty under Allah to spread Islam in this manner.
This is why such radical groups have emerged in Europe, such as one political party in the Netherlands that would seek to ban the Qu'ran. It's pretty large too, I'm not sure if it won any elections yet, but it's growing, interestingly enough.
As a society progresses, it experiences a tremendous boom in population due to new agricultural techniques, industrialization, etc. Any advancement that allows individuals to sustain bigger families. Do you think people weren't having as much sex back in paleolithic times? hell no, they were going at it all the time, but babies that were weak or couldn't be supported were discarded.
The Spartans did this only 2,500 years ago (which is not that long ago at all) in a deliberate attempt to wean out any weak links in their genes.
Anyway, after this initial boom (seen in the medieval age around 1,000) the birth rate levels out, (climate got colder around 1,300 AD) and then booms in staggered levels (agricultural innovation/social stability in Europe circa 1560) and then levels, and then booooooms (agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, circa 1720 AD) and then levels out.
In this modern period, or a period I and a few other scholars call post-modern, families in the West are getting smaller and smaller, if at all. It is the Muslims and non-white immigrants in Europe who are raising large families.
What is rather disturbing is that a lot of these families don't subscribe to Western values (which is a shame considering these values launched the Muslim Golden Age) and reproduce in massive numbers because they believe it is their duty under Allah to spread Islam in this manner.
This is why such radical groups have emerged in Europe, such as one political party in the Netherlands that would seek to ban the Qu'ran. It's pretty large too, I'm not sure if it won any elections yet, but it's growing, interestingly enough.
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