With a dying white race, why are we not encouraging more white births?

That raises questions.Would only white folks be subject to the failure-to-reproduce tax? Or would all races have to contribute to promoting white babies? How white do they have to be--would an "octaroon's" worth of non-white ancestry be okay, or do we need several generations of documented purity?Most human genetic variation is found within populations, not between them. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to find some way to bleach babies?

Best, I think, if government stays out of the reproductive lives of citizens altogether.States have sterilized people, denied them access to birth control, forced abortions, banned abortions and forbade some people from reproducing together. States and reproduction don't mix well.There's a legitimate state interest in insuring that citizens know how babies are made and how they're raised well. Other than that, government should serve the people it's got, not the getting of particular kinds. All political camps should be wary of opening that door.

Birth rates fall in industrializing countries due to many reasons, including improved infant survival, access to effective birth control and the rural-to-urban movement of populations. The education of women, in particular, closely correlates with falling birth rates.I don't know anyone who limited family size due to Malthus. Certainly, stagnant incomes have made large families difficult. Economies that necessitate two income households have also inhibited family size.Most past migrant families in the U.S. were large, a custom which changes over generations: Chinese, Italian, Irish, Dutch, German....Hasidic Jews and 'Quiver Full' evangelicals have ultra-large families and look to gain political clout from them. The Amish go big--for the farms?--and seem unconcerned about votes.You worry too much about the oddest things.

Well, I guess my working class origins were quasi-white, because nobody gave a damn about overpopulation or had heard of Malthus. You must have moved in rarefied circles of global conscience.You have noted disparate birth rates with concern previously. I'd say it's fair to call that worry.

We aren't riding an expansionary wave of imperialism, true, but I think that's nice.