Mike CernovichVerified account

years of taking birth control has more consequences than what women are lead to believe. also, eating mcdonalds every day doesn't maintain a biological system that can support a life. i do think adopting is a better option for *most* people dealing with infertility.

Unless you’ve experienced infertility don’t dare tell couples that. Adoption isnt like going to the corner to pick up a gallon of milk. It’s very difficult and can be full of as much heartbreak as not being able to have your own. Don’t speak of things you know nothing about.

Bisphenol-a

The oldest cultural artifacts in european existence are fertility idols. The foundational trunk story of all three western religions is the story of a good and God fearing man of means whose wife couldn't conceive. Fertility worries are the norm. The real question is this:

What made people so fertile in The 1800s?

Consider marriage age: the popular fiction is that women and men married and had children young until recently. This simply isn't true. We ONLY RECENTLY (decadanally speaking) got back to medieval marriage age averages from the early 1300s when the average age of marriage was...

... 27 for men and 23 for women. What was the constraint during the height of the middle ages in Europe? Land availability and the cost of raising a family. The colonial era and The age of European demographic expansion are historically unique. The present expansion in Africa...

... is driven by foreign aid and is artificial. Birth rates are declining in most developing countries with stable economic systems. Low birth rates are NORMAL. Our perception is also skewed by the genealogical records of noble families.

To put it simply: the average peasant man at the height of population during the medieval system married at 27 and had 2 or 3 children survive to adulthood. This is not uncommon pattern today. What we have today is a greater percentage of people having no children at all...

This represents an expansion of the monastic / communal lifestyle, now unchained from religious prerogative and given quasi secular impetus by the new ecological tradition. The species regulates itself in the absence of survival pressure. The future belongs to those that breed.