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Yes, and it's also true that fathering is much, much easier than mothering, lol!
One can father an entire population and not even know it!
Until, that is, DNA and accountability - now that the reality check is checking on the child support payments, fathering is finally slowing down.
But not enough yet, but the serial fathering that had caused much of the unbalanced numbers between the sexes is balanced out by the fact that is usually the female, and not the male, who desires procreation, at least in the West.
Cultural die-offs occur frequently throughout history, but the prominence of Western culture, alas, will ensure that at least the worst elements it has inflicted upon the world will not easily be displaced, whether sanity reigns and we stop breeding or not.
What does it matter?
Love for the planet and for all the species, including us, should be the paramount thing.
We're all one specie.
Besides, the more we mix, the more our cultures merge, the more rapport and the greater our understanding. Sharing will bring caring, I think, and as we all work together on the world's problems - each nation - each culture - we will grow closer to really acting like we are one specie.
We have history museums for most of the good stuff anyway.
Meanwhile, back to the millions of orphans - I think they should take precedence in any considerations, whether personal or collective.
Take care of the needy and homeless orphans first if you need to parent would be the kindest thing.
Putting those nurturing instincts to work somewhere else - somewhere they're needed, like in saving the planet - is a much healthier way to go in this state of the world, rather than further adding to the world's misery by creating ever more lives that will mathematically grow, should the planet survive.
The stats are great to know about, though.
In this day of constant bombardment by media and ads with their imperatives to breed, it's sobering to understand that most of us choose not to have children.Now we need to make it popularly known! And make it stylish and chic not to have kids!
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