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Re:  motivations for childbearing.

Behan seems to imply (last para) that US fertility is highest among the poor
and that this is true for more than one generation (in a family?). 
I find both propositions unlikely but don't really know.
Does someone have numbers?

Also I don't see US policy as pronatalist even for the rich! A tax
credit per child of say $ 2400 is not much compensation for the costs
incurred and earnings forgone. 

Tulja

(Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford U.)