“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?” WellsMayHomeCausesSimpleEffectsBabyBirthRoseRatePopulationCreditGermanyMistakenCause And EffectTemptingCorrelationPseudoscienceBirth RateStorksHome Birth Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.” CountryReasonRichBabyRateImmigration Author:Greg Ip
“I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.” IfsKnowsCountryWantedPurposeBlackCrimeBabyRateSoleCrime Rates Author:William Bennett
“Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.” StillsBabyHighestRateSecureTeensHousekeeping Author:Chelsea Handler
“I think everybody in this generation, and I'm the leading edge of the baby boom - I was born in 1946 - has benefitted from a 30-year explosion of debt, which created temporary but unsustainable economic prosperity and a financialization of the system through lower, and lower, and lower interest rates that has created massive rewards to speculation but not real investments so I benefitted from it. Almost everyone who has been in the market has benefitted but they didn't earn it.” ThinkingRealInterestEconomicBabyInvestmentRateProsperityTemporarySpeculationInterest Rate Author:David Stockman
“Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help and attention, emergency Cesarean sections and forceps. If you think that people just have a kid and it's no big deal, that's not true. It's one of the most dangerous things for a woman to do. If you take away access to accessible medical women in America, you're going to bump up the death rate.” PeopleThinkingHelpingKidsAttentionDangerousBabyRateMedicalPregnancy Author:Abigail Tarttelin
“If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.” CountryEnoughProblemSchoolOpportunityGoalPoorFocusChildhoodStudentsCollegeBabyRateEducation SystemCompletionEarly Childhood Author:Arne Duncan
“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?” IfsWritingStoriesProblemDiesGirlAdventureBabyNeededLuckyPagesRateAffairPrizeShort StoryLove Affair Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar