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From: jayt@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jay T McCanta)
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: age of society
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 13:19:42 EDT
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> Related to the increasing age of society, and probably the cause,
> is the increase in health of our society.  

I believe the cause of the increase age of society is not that we are
living longer, but that we are having fewer children.  Even if we lived
longer, if we still had lots of children the age of society would be
slowly climbing instead of the leaps we are now seeing.  As the baby 
boomers are starting to retire, their children (which were fewer than
they) are having fewer children as well.  In the U.S. population growth
is soley due to immigration. Without immigration, we would be experiencing
a negative population growth.