&gt; Maybe it&#x27;s time to start thinking <i>why</i> people who end up living in the West are unwilling to reproduce, despite having the highest standard of living ever available to humans.<p>We know why, it&#x27;s just an inconvenient truth. More women are choosing careers over having more children.<p>To maintain a stable population, each woman has to have an average of two children. But that&#x27;s the average; many will be infertile or homosexual or never find a mate or choose to never have children or only have one. So a great many would have to have more than two children to balance the average; many of our parents had five, six, seven, eight siblings because <i>their</i> mother&#x27;s entire life consisted of raising children.<p>It&#x27;s not easy for a family to raise five or more children while both parents work full time, so hardly anybody does that and the average falls below the population replacement rate. That&#x27;s the why.<p>How to fix that without going back to the Old Ways is not a trivial problem.