Fertility rates have been going down all over the world, and I've speculated that this is due to socialist policies, because socialism leads us into thinking that someone else's children will take care of us when we grow old. We're told to pay taxes now so that we'll be well provided for in the future. Having children becomes in this way more expensive relative to our net income, and those who trust in the government figure they can skip the extra cost of having children and rely on the promised pensions instead.
If this is true, Argentina should see increased fertility rates pretty soon due to its dismantling of the welfare state. We have a test case for our hypothesis.
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| Fertility rates in Argentina |
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