<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 8:08 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm doubtful that this is the whole reason. Declining birth rates are<br>
a widespread phenomenon. Economic and cost-of-living problems are<br>
often suggested.<br></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Indeed. Rather than cracking down, focusing on developing AI child raisers would probably help quite a bit: take the work off the parents.</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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