Sorry, ewokfan11. I’ve noticed you’re a bit reactive in your comments and I don’t usually engage, but I feel like I need to clear some things up. The “debate” about how many kids per woman a child has to have is NOT about what women are “meant” to have, it’s a scientific standard (not about gender roles.. population rates and issues are all around the world, so maybe let’s not all blame the Mormons). You are specifically arguing about the population itself, while sb613 was talking about the fertility rate. *Theoretically*, two parents would need to have two kids to “replace” them, and if every generation of two parents had two kids our population would *theoretically* stay the same. That is a stable fertility rate of 2.0 (two children per woman). Most developed countries have a fertility rate of around 1.7-1.9 right now, including the US, which is sitting around 1.8. Fertility rates have declined for a variety of reasons in developed countries, including increased access to birth control, increased education and sex education, more women being focused on their career before/instead of a family, etc.ewokfan11 wrote:WTF?? Are you insane??! The planet is already WAY overpopulated! Your math is simply FALSE!!!!! Yes, I think that IS just a Mormon thing. SMH!sb613 wrote:I'm speaking purely biologically and those numbers are the same for all women, everywhere. Everyone needs to have on average 2.1 kids just to keep the human race going, so it makes sense that people have the biological impetus to get that reproduction done young when you have the best odds of producing a healthy baby, and especially it makes sense for a woman to have achieved that number by the time they reach the age where their fertility has started to decline. It's not just a Mormon thing.ewokfan11 wrote: That really depends where you live and what you do, I suppose. Most people I know didn't even start getting married until 30 and kids even later. But I'm not Mormon.
Yikes, you need to GO TO COLLEGE!
Even if Mormons are having 5-7 kids, our fertility RATE as a country is under the replacement rate. That being said, a quick google search tells me that Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country (besides American territories Guam and American Samoa). The 2010 fertility rate for Utah was 2.45, so even still it was not astronomically high. Astronomically high fertility rates come from sub-Saharan African countries where women have little access to birth control, education, and medical care/facilities for mothers and especially their children. Niger has a fertility rate of 7.57 due to a lack of the aforementioned resources. Children/infants are more likely to die without these resources, which is a major factor in why women in Niger have more children: they have to make sure some of their kids make it to adulthood.
Sb613 was not saying that it is a woman’s DUTY to have children to keep the “population” stable.
I am literally in a senior in college with a major that focuses heavily on population rates (environmental policy). I have done multiple research-heavy projects about this very topic. Yes, I personally agree that our planet has more people than it can sustainably support, but yelling about these Mormon YouTube families because you think they’re the problem isn’t efficient. If you’re desperately angry about the population of our world, consider the facts first (like you suggested sb613 do..) and maybe donate to a cause that supports education for women and young girls in African countries.
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lol. I think everyone can agree that Mormons in general get married early because they want to have sex & they want to populate the world with Mormons. Of course, those are bad reasons. However, that doesn’t mean young marriage and having kids earlier isn’t right for some people. I was married young, had a child two years later, and will be trying for number #2 soon. I had a good job before I had my son, but decided to be a SAHM after. I’m also going to school simultaneously. It works for me and my family. We are happy. 
