Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate
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Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate
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#3"number of people who drowned by falling into a pool correlates with films nocolas cage appeard in"
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#4I once read a convincing argument that, in some cases, American's resistance to helmets caused helmet laws to have a net negative effect on health. The author claimed that the laws caused enough of a reduction in ridership that the lost exercise outweighed the reduction in injury. I've attempted to find the paper again, but I can't seem to track it down.
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#5"number of people who drowned by falling into a pool correlates with films nocolas cage appeard in"
While I don't quite see how the safety seat alone could cause that much of a difference, I don't think it is unreasonable to see a causal relationship here. Raising a child has gotten more expensive in the US for many reasons (laws about child seats, more money needed for education, no longer socially acceptable to leave kids alone for awhile) and that certainly has an impact.
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#6"number of people who drowned by falling into a pool correlates with films nocolas cage appeard in"
Skepticism is good, but not outright dismissal
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#7This reads like a textbook example of "correlation is not causation". You think there'd be ...some? people talking about how they decided not to have a child because she/he wouldn't fit in the car if it's going to have a measurable effect on birth rates but at least personally I have never, ever heard this one.
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#8The unspoken assertion is that we want a high birth rate. Why do we want a high birth rate?
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#9I can see this as being correlated, but I don't see this as being causative. And that's from someone who thinks some of the child/society safety laws are a bit absurd.
I think maybe it could go something like this: child safety laws are more prevalent/stringent in advanced society, living in an advanced society carries a higher cost of living, as the cost of living goes up (without matching income raises, like the US for the past 30+yrs) the people who feel they can't afford children rises. I think there are other underlying causes and the overall effect is a combination.
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#10We are Marcuse's one dimensional man.