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The Effect of Trauma on Birth RatesA proposed experiment. Traumatization could be a stimulus for reproduction. A species that could not reproduce quickly under adverse conditions would soon be wiped out. This also occurs in human society. Attention must be given to the size of families among different levels of economic well-being. If this is correct, then, despite logical assumption, the well-to-do and quiet families could tend to have fewer children, or perhaps none at all. Where as the poor families, or maybe even well-to-do families under certain sets of traumatic occurrences, might also tend to have large families, or a large number of children. So the cycle is that poorer countries tend to have a larger birthrate, but in historic time, the advent of more individuals in that area also brings about a certain wealth and prosperity, which then causes the same area, under prosperous and less stressful conditions, to have a significant decline in population. A direct result of this can be the significant decline in the prosperity of that country, eventually causing a failed-state scenario. Copyright
(c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved
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