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The average age for women to have children in Europe and Japan is 29 while in the
U.S. it is 25. 6 Throughout the developed world women today have their children at
least four years later than women in 1970. In the first half of the 20 th century, when
the population was not subjected to social engineering, European women had their
children in their late teens and early twenties. By delaying entrance into the
workforce for both men and women, an entire decade has been shaved off from
women’s childbearing years.
excessive materialism
The media is being used to condition people to be rabid consumers and to dedicate
their incomes to excessive materialism rather than invest it in children, as previous
generations did. The consumption of goods and services in ever greater amounts
has become man’s primary preoccupation in the socially engineered post-World War
II era giving rise to a consumer society that is self-centered and has relegated
children to secondary status.
debt
Foreign aid followed by World Bank loans and then by IMF austerity programs have
intentionally created spiraling debt in the developing world to deprive poor nations
of the revenue needed to invest in infrastructure and social programs. Coupled with
plummeting commodity prices and Western protectionism this has become the
formula for poverty that the
developed world has
imposed on the developing
world to create economic
conditions that are hostile to
families. Monetary coercion
has replaced military
conquest to control the
resources and destinies of
other nations. This is done
to halt the population
explosion that prevents the
developing world from catching up with the needs of its growing population, as
much as it is done for the rich world’s self-serving need to secure access to vital
6 T.J. Mathews, M.S., and Brady E. Hamilton, Ph.D., Delayed Childbearing: More Women Are Having Their First
Child Later in Life, NCHS Data Brief, No. 21, August 2009:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db21.pdf
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