How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?

Basicly it boils down to Society's attitudes.

At the same time the average Roman Pagen couple was producing on
average Two Children the average Christian pair was producing Six.

Utah has been sited as being a highly fertile region. Most areas that
vote Republican in the US produce more children than those that vote
democrat. This isn't an American phenomina. In Israil Orthodox and
Ultra-Orthodox Jews also produce large families as compared to their
more liberated neighbors.

Though Economics does factor in, it doesn't effect the birthrate as
much as some state. Colonial Populations in America, both in New
France and The British colonies, women produced between eight and ten
children on average. But at the same time Native American women
produced between four and five, except for those who moved into
European areas who basicly followed their white sisters in producing
large families though White women taken into native tribes tended to
stick to producing more children then their native sisters. Which for
some reason made them very popular with native men. Some chiefs such
as the Shawnee Warrior Blue Jacket actually favored white wives.
Modern proof that econonics hardly effects birth rate can be seen
that despite Generous Child subsidies, the European birthrate has
hardly been improved.

These are some of the things I learned while reseaching my project on
Space Colonies, the one I am having such difficulty putting together
into a novel.

I suspect once humanity moves into space, attitudes are going to
change. In addition there are the current problems with fertility
treatments that have increased the occurence of multiple births.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Al Globus wrote:
>
> I think the solar system can support perhaps 10 trillion people in
orbital
> colonies because obital colonies with a total living area of
perhaps 1,000
> times the surface area of the Earth are probably feasible. However,
that
> means significant population growth which requires either
artificial wombs
> (very hard) or for women to have lots of children. The data say
that most
> well-educated women not under the thumb of their man average
roughly 2
> kids, not enough to increase the population.
>
> Women, if you were living in orbital space colonies, would that
cause you