Star Trek Actor George Takei Comes Out

On 11/3/05, sraj wrote:
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> As in engineering, so also in our social usages, there should be a margin of safety, where we don't tip the balance too much in a negative direction. As you know there is negative population growth in developed nations; If the reason for this is the awareness that our planet is overpopulated then this negative growth is to be commended. Otherwise one has to wonder about the reason.
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Negative growth in many developed nations is happening not because of
some concern about population excess, I think, but just because in a
highly developed society the cost of raising children is also higher,
and so couples there choose to minimize cost by having less children
(many couples opt for having only one child, for instance) and
investing all that they can afford in that small (often equal to one)
number of children.

I got the impression that perhaps you think that increasing acceptance
of homosexuality is reflecting in declining birth rates in those
countries, but any statistic that you consult will point that
heterosexual couples are the vast majority (over 90%, usually) but
they choose to have few children. Remember that even the most
heterosexual couple on Earth will have zero children with the woman
uses contraceptives or the man uses condoms. (On the other hand,
nothing impedes a homosexual man or woman to conceive a child in a
single casual sex relation with a person from the opposite sex, if no
contraceptive method is used.)