@TGB
Quite so, but currently a lot of families in third world countries have a whole bunch of children. Now of course high infant mortality means that fewer will survive to adulthood than in the developed world, but even so, the population is rising quickly.

As better healthcare and nutrition etc makes its way to those parts of the world, the problem will only get worse unless we can convince people that it's not actually a good idea to have 7 kids!

Edit - reply is to another post, not the one immediately above.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 10:20, Reply)