This article doesn't directly speak to breastfeeding.  It talks about the declining birthrate all over the world.  But I think that detached parenting, and the *me-first* attitude we see and complain about, is just another manifestation of the factors that are creating the declining birth rate, that this article explores.  

Perhaps its not so much that this generation is not willing to sacrifice for thier child, but rather that society has ALWAYS had selfish reasons to have children (retirement security, child labour).  So, if we accept that premise, since children don't provide those benefits now, then we are less willing to sacrifice to have children at all, or to sacrifice when we *do* choose to have them. 

If we can get beyond the *emotion* and *judgement* when people make choices that we don't understand, and realize that they are actually making *rational* choices for their situation, we can look for, and address on the true cause of the behavior.  The explanation put forward in this article makes a lot of sense to me.  

Janice Reynolds



The Parent Trap
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=051706C
Not long ago we worried about baby booms and overpopulation. Now some people are worrying about a "Global Baby Bust."

"In nations rich and poor, under all forms of government, as more and more of the world's population moves to urban areas in which children offer little or no economic reward to their parents, and as women acquire economic opportunities and reproductive control, the social and financial costs of childbearing continue to rise.

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