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Should the age of consent be set at 21 to help reduce the world population?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gene2memE" data-source="post: 65309858" data-attributes="member: 341130"><p>If you want to slow global population growth, or even reverse it, the single best way is:</p><p></p><p>Education. Specifically, <strong>education of women</strong>. </p><p></p><p>Once women have access to education, there is a general tendency for them to move into the workforce. This grants them financial and social independence and access to more economic resources/economic power and reduced dependency. </p><p></p><p>With access to economic resources, women tend to have fewer, but healthier children. Their children also tend to have fewer and heathier children.</p><p></p><p>Female education is a positive feedback loop for the entire society.</p><p></p><p>If you're looking at other methods to reduce population growth, then your best bets are:</p><p></p><p>Increase contraceptive availability (also has major benefits for general societal health);</p><p>Move away from traditional marriage patterns, particularly early and arranged marriages;</p><p>Improve overall economic performance;</p><p>Reduce infant mortality rates (this is somewhat counter-intuitive, but if babies are more likely to survive, there is a general tendency towards lower numbers of chiildbirths);</p><p>Improve literacy rates;</p><p>Increase secularisation (nations with high levels of secularisation generally have better economic and educational outcomes and lower rates of fertility);</p><p>Encourage economic migration from the developing to developed world (migrants into highly developed countries generally have birth rates 1/2 that of the developing countries they left).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gene2memE, post: 65309858, member: 341130"] If you want to slow global population growth, or even reverse it, the single best way is: Education. Specifically, [B]education of women[/B]. Once women have access to education, there is a general tendency for them to move into the workforce. This grants them financial and social independence and access to more economic resources/economic power and reduced dependency. With access to economic resources, women tend to have fewer, but healthier children. Their children also tend to have fewer and heathier children. Female education is a positive feedback loop for the entire society. If you're looking at other methods to reduce population growth, then your best bets are: Increase contraceptive availability (also has major benefits for general societal health); Move away from traditional marriage patterns, particularly early and arranged marriages; Improve overall economic performance; Reduce infant mortality rates (this is somewhat counter-intuitive, but if babies are more likely to survive, there is a general tendency towards lower numbers of chiildbirths); Improve literacy rates; Increase secularisation (nations with high levels of secularisation generally have better economic and educational outcomes and lower rates of fertility); Encourage economic migration from the developing to developed world (migrants into highly developed countries generally have birth rates 1/2 that of the developing countries they left). [/QUOTE]
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