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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (452675)9/4/2003 4:25:23 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
Actually, until very recently the tax exemption for children did not keep up with inflation.

Birth rates are indeed a complex matter. Obviously, the baby boom after world war II and the subsequent baby bust caused large fluctuation in the U.S. birth rate.

When the U.S. was an agrarian economy, children had economic value. They worked the farm, and in so doing helped the economic vitality of the family. As the U.S. moved into an industrial economy, a shift occurred and children were seen as less of an economic value.

Raising children became costly, thus birth rates began to decline nationally. So, economics certainly played a large role in the U.S. birth rate.
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