"academics are beginning to realise that the main reason why poor people are having children is sex"
What a great line!!! I thought that I had somehow linked to an Onion.com headline. Wot, yu means the storks ar not the wuns that dunnit???
I know that the idea that the rate of population increase is dependant on development etc is old hat but the question is whether it is true.
Can you think of any examples of affluent societies with an increasing rate of population growth(without migration) or are their populations stabilising of their own accord.