A good question that we talked over at work.
Over the years we have driven ourself to become more and more educated. We tend to stay at school long.Could this eventually bring about the extinction of us as a race.
The arguement being this. Over the last two hundred years that we know, we have extended our thirst for greater knowledge, thus stayed longer at school, way back then yea left school at 10 and started having a family and kids by 14. You tended to have large families to. Forward to today. More and more people tend to stay on for more education thus enter the work force latter, get married latern and have kids later, and far fewer kids if any.
I do have friends that I call professional schoolies. They are still in the educational system one way or another at over 50, doing research and the like. never worked in outside industry.
Pushing the pattern out more could we all become extinct if we don't destroy the planet beforehand??
Are we having fewer kids? I thought the average number of children had increased from 2.4 to 2.6 over the past few decades?
Ann Arbor is a prime area for delayed families -I'm one of the youngest mums and I had my first at 27. But most families have 3 rather than the 2 kids I remember as the norm when I was growing up.
I found
this stat which says the average US family size increased from 3.14 to 3.18 between 2000 and 2005.
People getting married later have more money and can afford bigger families.
Comparing back hundreds of years -families had many more children, but there were fewer people in the world. To keep the population under control, if more than two children per family survive to produce offspring, they need to have fewer than their parents did.
Goose3 @ Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:11 pm Wrote:A good question that we talked over at work.
Over the years we have driven ourself to become more and more educated. We tend to stay at school long.Could this eventually bring about the extinction of us as a race.
The arguement being this. Over the last two hundred years that we know, we have extended our thirst for greater knowledge, thus stayed longer at school, way back then yea left school at 10 and started having a family and kids by 14. You tended to have large families to. Forward to today. More and more people tend to stay on for more education thus enter the work force latter, get married latern and have kids later, and far fewer kids if any.
I do have friends that I call professional schoolies. They are still in the educational system one way or another at over 50, doing research and the like. never worked in outside industry.
Pushing the pattern out more could we all become extinct if we don't destroy the planet beforehand??
I see a cause, an action, and I see an effect, but I don't see a link between the two. What part of seeking greater knowledge over a longer period, would send us to extinction?
JohnA. People spend more time on education and then career = less kids compared to times passed.
Germany is having that problem now. They are having to get more immigrants to do work. People are spending more time at college and finish their education at around 30 get careeer then marry latter and then only have 1 kid, therefore the population decrease's.
Well at least they won't be invading poland anytime soon lol
Goose3 @ Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:02 pm Wrote:JohnA. People spend more time on education and then career = less kids compared to times passed.
Germany is having that problem now. They are having to get more immigrants to do work. People are spending more time at college and finish their education at around 30 get careeer then marry latter and then only have 1 kid, therefore the population decrease's.
Well at least they won't be invading poland anytime soon lol
That still doesn't mean that the human race will become extinct, does it :?: