Quote from: Isaac_Ramirez on July 31, 2018, 11:02:56 AM

The birth rate is already decreasing. It has been for many decades. This is greatly tied to wealth. As a country becomes more wealthy, the birth rate tends to decrease. In the past, it was more important to people to have more children. Not that long ago, the majority of society was involved in farming. Now it is just a small percent of the population. When people had old traditional farms it required a lot of work, so people would have more children to have more free labor. This is still the case in some places, but it's happening less an less as technology relieves farm workers around the world.

I think big families are also a product of tradition, not only desire for free labour. Religious people are more likely to have more children. Smaller families are more characteristic for urban population and the Western society.