Vanishing Species

Where have all the children gone? Birth rates are down, not just in Fiorella's crowd, but all over the nation. The economy may have something to do with it, but Fio thinks the phenomenon has more to do with the change in social and sexual mores. Birth control has given modern women control over their futures, and increasingly, they choose to remain childless. To round out the picture, men of this generation are clinging to their adolescence later than their fathers and grandfathers did.

So much for the zero population growth movement. Guess we don't need them after all. We're doing the job all too well on our own.