[geeks] Psychotropics aka anti-depressants, etc

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Mike Hebel wrote:

> >> Parents with more money, on average, have more children.
> >> Conservative families in the US tend to have more money.
> >
> > Clearly you've not been to Texas or Southern California lately.  The
> > majority of children down here are born to Hispanic families, many of
> > which are impoverished.
>
> Point taken.  But it still holds on some levels.

Not really.  It's been proven that the richer you are, the less likely you
are to have a lot of children.  The largest families are found where you
have an agricultural setting where the large family is necessary for
manpower reasons.

> Honestly this is one of those arguments that unless you have hard
> numbers it becomes pointless to speculate.

Indeed.

Peace...  Sridhar