Pop23
Gold Member
Big difference between fertility rate and the number of children being engendered. You can be fertile and still CHOOSE not to spawn the next generational burden on society...
"Burden"? You've gone completely irrational.
Yes, "burden". If you force others in the community to subsidize your offspring, that makes your reproductive efforts a burden to society.
The opposite argument can be made also. Problem is that we have a law on the books requiring participation in an health care, which is tiny compared to the economic benefit realized by procreation, or face fines that are forced upon us by way of governmental force.