Baby Boom 2013 Due To Religion?

[boxtops]

Now here's a topic for discussion

http://www.livescience.com/38743-religious-women-having-more-babies.html

[Old_Geezer]

Really ? So being religious seems to encourage less responsibility to the human race and the planet ? That's a shame :-(

[jim360]

A change of 0.01 per woman doesn't seem to me to be worth writing home about.

[Baldric]

As long as it doesn't get into a habit!

[pixie373]

Apparently, it's the women who postponed due to the recession (not sure how you can tell), so the numbers won't make much difference. They'll just be a few years younger.

[boxtops]

BBC news says it's also due to the fact that women are having babies across a wider age range (the women's age range, that is!).

[naomi24]

//"Partly because religious communities provide a family-friendly context to the women who attend them, religious women are more likely to have children, and to bear a comparatively high share of the nation’s children, compared to their less religious or secular peers," //

More likely because birth control is either forbidden or actively discouraged.

[mikey4444]

I'm not sure if religion is the cause. There are more people in Britain now, which must surely be one factor at least.

[pixie373]

I think it was American statistics.

[jim360]

Problem is, it's not really a baby boom. The same statistics show a fall in the birth rate for (most of) the past few years, and this is a tiny rise against that statistic. While it's true that the birth rate is higher in religious families than non-religious, I just don't see that this qualifies as a "boom".

[emmie]

it is a baby boom, an nothing to do with religion, most of those seeming are right here in the capital, no surprise there. According to the news last evening we have somewhere in the region of 8 and a half million souls here now, no wonder people can't seem to find a home... school place for their children and the hospitals, gp surgeries are chokka.

[jim360]

Clash of two stories, I think, emmie? The OP refers to a statistic in the USA. The boom/ population increase here in Britain is a different story.

[boxtops]

Jim, you are right, I didn't double check my link in the OP, it was supposed to be a link to the UK story - sorry.

[dave50]

The main problem is that the irresponsible underclass breed more than the more responsible people further up the social ladder ie the wrong type of people are breeding which will put further strain on the welfare budget in the future as these people become adults and follow in their parents footsteps into a life on welfare. Eventually there will be more taking out than can be paid for by the dwindling minority who pay tax.

[emmie]

sorry i assumed wrongly that it was about UK,

[emmie]

http://rt.com/news/population-baby-boom-birth-263/