 clearly our non silly non antiquated ideas about relationships have resulted in mostly short duration relationships and single parented dysfunctional kids not enough of them too boot so to keep our demographics from completely keeling over we re importing them from places with mostly silly and antiquated ideas at least from the viewpoint of demographics sustainability and counterpressure to gerontocracy and resulting innovatiophobia we re doing something wrong there was a fascinating article in the economist NUMBER NUMBER weeks back the issue with a pregnant looking statue of liberty on the front that stated that even for the native us population fertility had jumped in the last decade and a half i think the current figure for the us is a little over NUMBER but not quite the NUMBER NUMBER of replacement rate combined with the very fertile non native population the article implied the us was going to have a significant increase in population over earlier predictions as well the population would overall be more youthful with associated implications for being able to fund social programs military spending consumer spending etc europe did not show the same increase in fertility some actual data for the us are here URL part of URL jim 