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by 789itsfine 1475 days ago
The number of children born to a given family has fluctuated over time. It's not absurd to say that the shape of our society influences family planning.

In fact, there are capitalist countries (coughJapan) where encouraging baby-making, in the face of a demographic crisis that threatens to catastrophically disrupt economic stability, is state policy.