not only is your fertility higher but your ideal fertility. people who go to church of some sort want to have bigger families and people who do not. so you have got this real split in america now between secular america were not only are the fertility rates much lower and ideal fertility is much lower and believing religious america where people not only want it or families that have bigger families. if you look at it anecdotally here own life experience when was the last time you saw a family with six or seven kids that didn't go to church every week? there art the general social survey this giant longitudinal survey of 70,000 families and if you dig through the cross tabs you can look at the number of people who have four or more children and then look at them by church attendance. the number of people with four more children who never go to church is exactly zero. >> host: wow. of course it's an important role in reinforcing family dynamics and encouraging a community of pham -- community who have children and are have set encourages famili

they calculate the birthrate, the general fertility rate and a total fertility rate. it's not a real number, in the sense that it's a hard and fast number. it's a statistical construct which means, basically, right now this very moment in time if every woman were to live to the end of her life having an average of number of children. what would the number be? america right now, for instance, that number is 1.93. the golden number for us, the golden number in all demographics is 2.1. it's the replacement rate. in order for society to maintain the population. the average woman has two have 2.1 children over the course of her lifetime. if they have more than that. the society's population grows. if she has fewer then over time the population contracts and dismirning. -- diminishing. >> to some extend the process has been going on for centuries. the fact that birthrates have been going down. >> right. you could see in america the first good data it comes in 1800. from almost the founding you are able to see the fertility rates declining. by the time we hit the second worl

the average ideal fertility is perfect, 2.5 and the fertility is almost half a kid of less than that. it's not responsible to have a kid before you're married and settled and may have your first real place. okay it's not responsible to get a place until you have a good job and you can't do the job until you graduate from college. all these start backing up and backing up until you are not really beginning family life until you are 30, 32-years-old. >> host: we are seeing that the marriage for both men and women now is in their late 20s and so unless you are going to have a child without being married that is pushing off childbirth still more. >> guest: it pushes it backwards. it's interesting. some of the stuff becomes counter intuitive. a lot of people might assume that as women have been pushing to the work force number and 70% of women or outside of the home that would contribute to fertility decline. maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. it shows countries with high your participation rates, countries like france and sweden and norway have much higher fertility rates than what we th

so so what benefit will singapore get out of raising their fertility. when the last time i was in singapore there i saw some pretty huge slums it looks like they've got plenty of. they don't think so so yeah maybe you understand the business better than they do well you know do you think that having a large slums is a good thing. historically fast of the human condition right i mean nobody's eliminated them not when there's a shortage of labor so they're never slums and. radically diminished and they didn't diminish in the united states after world war two and after the civil war whenever you have a population that has decreased you have a general increase in wealth per person i mean this is don't want your book keeping aren't well a problem solved ok. that's what thank you for. thank . you thank. you you thank . choose your language. calling me kevin though in federal court today still some of the. treatments that the consensus here can get to the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that entire life truth be access to your office. and wel

--the mid-february roman fertility feast that st.valentine's day is based on. [laughter] as i'm sure you know, lupercalia is named for lupa, the she-wolf who suckled rome's twin founders romulus and remus. [laughter] folks, i say that's what's wrong with kids today: not enough wolf-teat. [cheers and applause] [laughter] so to the guys watching the show, a little hint, after the show tonight, i want you to celebrate a traditional valentine's day -- by guzzling a couple of skins full of wine, sacrificing a goat to venus, wearing its skin, and racing through your town, whipping any women you pass with a short leather thong to promote fertility. [laughter] you know, romance! [laughter] [cheers and applause]

that our achieved fertility and ideal fertility is we've got cultural and economic roadblocks that pop college is a great example. college costs have increased by 1,000 percent since 1965 in real dollars. it delays family formation, if you don't get out of college, it backs your whole life up. if maybe your starting your family at 30, you're not able to achieve the family size you want. >> we doubled the median income between 1947 and 1973. since 1937 it has been largely stagnant for many workers you know. >> that's a great point. >> but it's stagnant with two incomes to try to grow your limit. >> two people have to work. >> '47 to '73, it grew steadily. it was easier for people to feel they had the resources and we're seeing a widening separation, talk about college, if your parents graduated from college you are today five times more likely to graduate than if your parents were not. so you know, the way in which our ladders of opportunity reinforce rather than tear down social stratification it all does fit in. there's a cultural thing going on. as societies get more money and they c

rate going to also so what benefit will singapore get out of raising their fertility will allow them to sustain their economic when the last time i was in singapore there i saw some pretty huge slums it looks like they've got plenty of people. they don't think so so yeah maybe you understand the business better than they do well you know do you think that having a large slums is a good thing will largely under sort of historically fast of the human condition right i mean nobody's eliminated i'm not not when there's a shortage of labor. so there are never slums and rows around here where through to today certainly there they radically diminished and they radically didn't diminish in the united states after world war two and after the civil war whenever you have a population that has decreased you have a general increase in wealth per person i mean this is don't want your bookkeeping aren't well a problem solved ok jonathan r.l. for me. that's what i thought thank you for great thanks if you. thank you. thank you thank. you thank you. it's technology innovations all the latest developm

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they looked at the affect on the fertility rate.small effect on white, larger effect of hispanic , and xbox significant other black americans. in. lou: why? >> because black americans have abortion more frequently as a percentage of the population. this is an impact in some of us think about as really quite awful. >> i think it is extraordinary that we have so little discussion of these realities in our national media amongst our political leaders. it was not even discussed or mentioned on the campaign trail, coming off of a presidential election. that stunning stuff. and when we look at the various causes, the impact, we have in most families in which we are fortunate enough to have two parents available for the one our children in that home, you're seeing people delayed childbirth. in some cases delay or not getting married. we watched marriage rates decline. what are we to do? >> what is funny is that over europe and in asia there more obsessed with demographics that i am. really the policy over there, and it is coming to us. the

going to so so what benefit will singapore get out of raising their fertility. when the last time i was in singapore there i saw some pretty huge slums it looks like they've got plenty of. they don't think so so yeah maybe you understand the business better than they do well you know do you think that having a large slums is a good thing. sort of historically fast of the human condition right i mean nobody's eliminated them not when there's a shortage of labor. so they're never slums and. radically diminished and they radically didn't diminish in the united states after world war two and after the civil war whenever you have a population that has decreased you have a general increase in wealth per person i mean this is bookkeeping all right well the problem solved ok. thank you for. thank. thank. you. let me let me i want to know we're going to let me ask you a question from. here on this morning as we're having a debate we have our knives out if. the truth is this right what's the best thing there are to get here in a situation where b. and i don't even talk ab

over the years conflict fertility increase and demographers said this was the end of catholic fertility. they were no longer special but instead something much more interesting happened. it no longer mattered what your actual belief was to the matter if you were jewish or more men are catholic or protestant. all the matter is how often you attended your services and so there's a straight line between the increased fertility etc. so if you go once every two months your fertility is higher than if you go not at all and if you go once a month it is higher still. if you go once a week it is higher still and not only that but your ideal fertility. you go to church you want to have a bigger family than people who do not so you have a split in america did in secular america not only are the fertility rates much lower and in religious american people still not only want a bigger families that had year. if you think about this anecdotally you're on real-life experience when is the last time you saw a family with six or seven kids that didn't go to church every week? there are not many of them. a

uterus -- he says the pill cannot be used to stop egg cells that are already fertilized. onto economic news, and job numbers for the first time since last year exceeded the 3 million level. 3 million more people were registered as unemployed than in december raising the national jobless rate to 7.4%, but economists are playing down concerns, saying the winter weather caused a temporary kleiman that they do expect the job market to bounce back in the coming weeks and months. >> just when it seemed as if greece's economic woes had disappeared from the news, transport workers and medical staff went out on strike on thursday. the economy has entered a sixth successive year of recession, and locals are angry at the difficulties they have to face. >> protesters say the choice, consisting of the imf, the eu, and the ecb, have impose policies on the country that are crippling and dangerous. protesters are demanding changes. >> dockworkers walked off the job in greece. so did bus drivers. overground trains were not running in athens, either. another strike in greece in protest to

--the mid-february roman fertility feast that st.valentine's day is based on.hter] as i'm sure you know, lupercalia is named for lupa, the she-wolf who suckled rome's twin founders romulus and remus. [laughter] folks, i say that's what's wrong with kids today: not enough wolf-teat. [cheers and applause] [laughter] so to the guys watching the show, a little hint, after the show tonight, i want you to celebrate a traditional valentine's day -- by guzzling a couple of skins full of wine, sacrificing a goat to venus, wearing its skin, and racing through your town, whipping any women you pass with a short leather thong to promote fertility. [laughter] you know, romance! [laughter] [cheers and applause] either that, or you know pick up some roses at the deli. girls like that stuff. [laughter] nation, it's been five years since the economic meltdown. and while even i used to be mad at wall street-- at this point, who can even remember who wired the global financial system to a roulette wheel while jacked on enough cocaine to bring down a bison? [laughter] and yet the

. >>> the village fertility is having a recall for women undergoing fertility treatment. last month another pharmacy was at the center of meningitis steroids. >>> it was a late night as stars celebrated the awards and there were big presenters. >> argo. >> first lay dy michelle obama appeared movievia satellite to announce best picture. daniel day-lewis made history as the first man to win best actor three times. jennifer lawrence won for best actress. i talked to the man sied -- to an nay o dell. >> tell us about the fall from jennifer lawrence? >> i feel like i jinxed her talking about the train on her dress. i recall her going up the stairs to make her speech one of the highlights of the evening. i'm not saying that to make fun of her it made her more lovable. now she's an oscar winner and human so trying to navigate that train and getting up there and recovering by going i know why you all are giving me the standing ovation it's because you saw me fall and i'm embarrassed. i talked to her on the red carpet and she was talking about how big that train was and how it wa

if the soil is not fertile, you know, teaching in a barren environment is still a very difficult place to grow tools. radical. it's on the book shelves now. we'll have a little bit more with michelle

women who get fertility treatments are not at an increased risk of cancer. it can involve ovulation stimulation, and it was suspected that the procedures increase risk in cancer. but not so. a new study reveals little connection. experts say it's hard to know whether unmeasured factors not related to ivf itself can effect cancer in women who have trouble conceiving. >>> the flu may be over. it's continuing to decline throughout the country. 31 states are now reporting widespread flu activity is dropping off. southeastern states are doing the best, and while states in the west and northeast have a high flu level. >> a high end jeweller versus a big box store. tiffany and company is suing costco for selling counterfeit jewelry. people bought engagement rings that they thought were authentic tiffany products. and they did not. >>> wow. >> i know. >> we are back in a moment, stay with us. >>> let the feathers fly. we showed you last night, the annual event is all about having fun, but the cleanup lasts a lot longer. crews had to work overnight, sweeping up all t

2.5 and then you have fertility which is 1.9.turing and yelling but trying to make the lives easier and help them achieve the families they want. >> tommy mouthist was a tool. you heard it here first. thank you very much for coming on. >> great to be with you guys. >>> up next, from the creator of "the tu dorrs" the history channel gets a show about vikings. boom! or maybe arg? ♪ [ female announcer ] from tracking the bus. ♪ to tracking field conditions. ♪ wireless is limitless. some brokerage firms are. but way too many aren't. why? because selling their funds makes them more money. which makes you wonder -- isn't that a conflict? search "proprietary mutual funds." yikes! then go to e-trade. we've got over 8,000 mutual funds, and not one of them has our name on it. we're in the business of finding the right investments for you. e-trade. less for us. more for you. the fund's prospectus contains its investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information and should be read and considered carefully before i

. >> the 21-year-old's father donated sperm anonymously to a fertility center in western germany. the doctor who carried out the facility -- fertility treatment said he no longer has any information on the donor's identity, but the court did not believe that claim, and the doctor could face a fine if he does not pass on the details. the ruling could have landmark consequences. and every individual can now demand that the doctor supply them with information about the identity of the donor. >> an estimated 100,000 children in germany have been born from anonymous sperm donors. legislation as it stands leave the rights of such people as well as donors and medical staff in a legal grey area. >> we are going to a short break. when we come back, predatory banks. >> and watch out, x-men. a synthetic man not quite up to fighting shape yet, but he is being unveiled. >> stay with us. >> welcome back. while we have seen it time and time again since the financial crisis broke in 2008, taxpayers being forced to bail out banks politicians claimed were too big to fail, but now tacitly signaling

men who watch more than 20 hours of tv a week are half as fertile. part of the reason could be because heavy tv viewers are less physically active. volunteer whose said they worked out 15 hours or more a week had a much higher sperm count. the study's authors say more research is needed. >> facebook knows quite a bit about the users. new details about your life it could gather on your mobile division, -- mobile device, whether you like [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents are awesome. but when i cook up some beef, ketchup, relish and cheese, cover it with crescent dough and pow! cheeseburger crescent casserole. double awesome. pillsbury crescents. let the making begin. here's a better idea. pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. pillsbury grands biscuits let the making begin. >> good morning, on this tuesday morning. the golden gate bridge has light traffic but cloud cover out there this morning. our temperatures, will they change? will the showers still arri

this creates incentives for non fertility. it is a materialistic explanation and it is more complicated with other factors that it is a real factor. doesn't have any effect in the united states? yes. california is europe. rarely is every measurable effect would also attitudes and beliefs and expectations have made their choice it is not a coincidence not just leaving the state budget having fewer and fewer children. a good example how the state can crowd out other institutions of the long term challenges for those that they try to help. >> to mention several times with those costs in the long-term effects. >> there are economic cost of social democracy, less productivity increased regulation, etc., etc. but with the right sense of responsibility of themselves before their families. the state takes care of that, right? the other is a moral cost of expectations that i am entitled to certain things as a matter of right without any explanation or they come from even the language of moral discourse becomes corroded, and breaks down

expenses this year are down a touch, but you have to fertilize spray, do it all. i mean, we ended up with four extra sprays the theorem me tell you, it is not cheap. >> thank you. i'd like to ask mr. lasalle come you all talk about additional risk management tools related to conservation practices. i wonder if united states touch on briefly what conservation practices you use and how it makes it more resilient for you managing the drought and other areas. >> over the years we've installed many, many miles of livestock water pipeline syndicate manager grazing in a matter worthy of some grass invitation that we never use a case we have a drought through some of the cosh or programs available. that's enabled us to pipe the water, installed tanks. one of the other things we've done is installed permanent livestock shelters. we've actually built them out there so when the cattle are in a blizzard company can actually get to a spot that hopefully keeps them from going to what my neighbor experienced, this takes a practices. >> thank you. ms. steinbarger. >> yes, our con

control of the most fertile bottom lands brought great power to the lords. here on the acropolis, that power was expressed in grand temples and palaces, a carefully constructed stage for royal display. in the maya, we see a pattern of cultural evolution found throughout the world. in the old world, all the great civilizations resulted from efficient forms of agriculture and the monopolization of that wealth by a few. as archaeologists delve ever more deeply into our shared human history, they are discovering that complex civilizations independently arose in similar ways throughout the world. the advent of agriculture propelled many new world societies to greater heights of culture. 300 miles to the west of copan, in mexico, the kingdom of the zapotecs emerged at about the same time as the maya. on a towering hilltop, monte alban became the capital of an opulent civilization of kings and nobles, writing and art. this was the home of the zapotecs, a separate ethnic and cultural society, contemporary with but distinct from the maya. monte alban grew to be much

unless we're going to continue to use oil based fertilizers. you need animals on farms whether you believe in human meat or not. you grow feed for the animals and they have to be depending on how our society ends up after climate change some foods we won't be able to provide local the or regionally. i can envision we would still have citrus from florida but citrus industry has been devastated by global trade. it is making some common sense changes overtime that allow farmers to feed their food through grocery stores. we have good examples of this like in kansas. there's a local grocery store chain that is buying from a co-op of farmers throughout that region and it is because that chain has had the commitment to do that. i went in last summer and is not people -- i should know this. i can't think of it off of the top of my head. it is in the book because i interviewed the person but i have a challenge memory. i can't remember the name of the chain. this is regular people shopping there, not just people who go to wholefoods and the foods are fai

we're actually -- the global fertility rate has been dropping for 40 years now.xt 60 years. >> why is there, you call it, demographic disaster looming? >> there's a big constellation of forces, to give you the short list. things like the creation of social security, decline in infant mortality, rise of contraception. the universality of college. some of these changes are very good. but even good changes can come with costs. >> your title is obviously kind of a play on the book that has been on the best-seller list for ages and ages, the "what to expect when you're expecting," that every new mom picks up when she's pregnant. >> our bible. >> right. a play on that. some will read the book and say, wait a minute, women have been empowered by having less children. >> everybody's been empowered by having less children. having susan kidd a raw deal, right? -- having a kid is a raw deal, right? it costs a lot of money. if you look at ideal fertility studies, most women and men say they want 2.5 children, we on average have 1.9 children. people aren't reaching for fertil

it is the old age motion for fertility. i talked about how this was important. it reflects my responsibility to the previous generation and what they do is create a huge problem in that people will be saying that i don't need to have children because i will be taking care of by the welfare station. that means that someone else is paying for you as well as their own children. this creates incentives for fertility. it is a very materialistic issue and it is a real factor. does it have an effect in the united states? yes, i think california is a classic example. california is europe in every measurable institution and also in terms of attitude and expectation. it is not a coincidence that the population level there has existed, it's not just people leaving the state, those having fewer and fewer children. it's a good example of how these used to take care of some of these social long-term economic challenges. but it also creates a bad result for those that they are trying to help. >> is there anyone that has any other questions? >> i would just like to mention seve

. >> from almost the founding you're able to see the fertility rates declining. by the time we hit the second world war we were right around to and immediately after the first world war two of the second world war, sorry, we have the only major instance of increase in fertility rate in the entire country's history, the baby boom. the baby boom, you know, the term which fits us. and it really was remarkable as a moment because not only did the fertility rate increase, quite high, it went up to about as high as three and a half fighting for white americans, not only did it jumped up, but it stayed up for an entire generation and it was a really long lasting impact. people change the way they lived for generations. and then by 1970 that momentum, that moment had ended. we saw that a gradual slowdown, but really the fertility rate dropped off a cliff. >> jonathan last on how changing demographics and birth rates could cause the u.s. to lose its place as the world's leader, sunday night at 9:00 eastern on afterwards on c-span2. and look for more book tv on line. like

las hembras pueden ser fértiles por más de un siglo pero sólo se reproducen exitosamente alrededor deo totalmente erradicadas por competidores que ser reproducen con mayor rapidez tales como la cabra doméstica. gracias a su dieta vegetariana y a su ritmo de vida lento, las tortugas gigantes de los galápagos se han adaptado para sobrevivir en este terreno difícil. Ñ Ñ = =úÑúÑúÑú=@=@@@@@qqqq una clase de lagarto monitor y el ser más cercano a un velociraptor moderno en australia. ♪ ♪ ♪ un perentie adulto no tiene chos enemigos naturales por los que deba preocuparse. pero en los matorrales australianos tampoco hay muchas presas. o al menos no las había hasta que los colonos europeos introdujeron al conejo al interior de australia a mitad del siglo xix. se reprodujeron, claro, como conejos, y pronto se convirtieron en la peste más odiada de australia. ♪ operación dragón contra la plaga. ♪ [música de suspenso] ♪ el lagarto monitor tiene pulmones enormes, un gran volumen de sangre y sus músculos son excepcionalmente efectivos almacenando oxigeno, lo cual los hace los ganadores en carreras e

we have the only major -- fertility rate increase, which is the baby boom. it really was a remarkable moment. fertility increased quite high. not only did it jump up, but it stayed up for an entire generation. people changed the way they lived for a generation by 1970, the momentum ended. we saw not a gradual slowdown, but a dropping off of it left. >> jonathan last on changing demographics and birthrates could cause the u.s. to lose its place as a world leader. sunday night on "after words post quote on c-span 2. >> on tuesday, a senior official from blue cross blue shield of massachusetts looks at care health -- healthcare costs. she spoke at an event hosted by national journal in washington. this is just over two hours. >> good morning. i want to welcome you to the summit in building a higher performing medicare system. in addition to the folks in the room, welcome to the live stream viewers who are watching at national journal.com. i will ask if you take a moment to please silence your cell phones. we want this to be a lively discussion. we welcome your

every year about july, the floodwaters of the nile would gradually rise, carrying fertile silt down from the headwaters until the farmland had been renewed as the floodwars receded. not surprisingly, the ancient egyptians living with this cycle soon came to equate the regular pattern of the nile and its gift of rebirth with the universe itself. their most important philosophical principles stemmed from that equation. it was the idea of maat-- roughly "rightness" or "order." everything about the egyptian way of life had a pattern, a rhythm, a sense of orderly beginning and end. so too, the egyptians believed, this must be the way of man. man's end on earth was merely a beginning in the next world. when a pharaoh asked, "how long is life?" he was told, "thou art destined for millions of years, for a lifetime of millions." ( ship's horn blowing ) when howard carter returned to the valley of the kings from england in 1922, it was his last chance to find the elusive tomb of the pharaoh tutankhamun. for six years he had searched, but now his support from his sponsor, lord carnarvon, s almost e

>> the moscow times wrote a cutsie league and saying just in time for the fertility campaign comes the >> why didn't you tell us that before? >> i didn't know it before. >> you found out during the show? you know what he was doing all day? >> do you understand -- >> do you understand what i do during the show, greg? i do research. it is my job. >> you could have said, gutfeld, i did some research today. did you know this whole putin thing is false? no instead you are watching golf. oh my god. he almost had a hole in one. oh great everybody here is working and he is watching the golf. it is always my fault when i am the only one that gets the fact. that's not my fault. that's your fault because you could have gotten it sooner, my end from. >> didn't putin, didn't he chime in on this though? i read a comment though. >> i think he did chime in. >> he made it a story? >> i didn't say it was a story. i said boyz2 men were not there because of the campaign. it is a coincidence. >> how was golf? >> phil mickelson shot a 60. >> so violent. >> you talked about how the birthrate is a big concern

there has been a new study that says it affects fertility. now politicians do not like to talk about this, but young people are much more sophisticated than older people. they get this. that does not work to tell them they will get cancer diseases. element.the verrillility [laughter] then in 2000 when he became concerned about the election, he sent me a column that he wrote. with the 10 point victory for the democrats in 2000. there was a kind and finance reform, universal healthcare -- there was a campaign-finance reform, universal healthcare, he wanted no tax cuts until the debt was paid down. mr. mayor, it is not just new york that owes him a lot. he had a lot of other interesting things. he still wanted to give young people a second chance. he used to say he was a liberal, but he was sayinne. i do not think i ever debated, discussed anybody in this line of work who had a better feel for the impact of what people in government did on the real-life people. he could imagine what life was like. one of his great second chance ideas was that th

. >> from almost the founding you're able to see fertility rates declining.the time we had the second world war, we were announced . 2.1 at immediately after the second world war, we had the only major incident of increase in the facility rate, the baby boomer -- fertility rate. it really was a remarkable moment. not only did the fertility rate increase to as high as 2.7 for white americans and 2.9 for black americans, not only did it jumps up, but it stayed up for an entire generation. it was a long lasting effect. people change the way they lived for generations -- for a generation. by 1970, that moment had ended. then the fertility rate dropped off a cliff. >> changing demographics and birthrates could cause the u.s. to lose its place as a world leader. sunday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span2. looks for more online. like us on facebook. >> "washington journal" continues. host: maren leed is with the center for strategic and international studies. she served as a senior adviser. she also worked with senate confirmation. could you give us a sense of your inv

there are also fertilized egg is a person abortion bans that have been put forward this year alreadyn north dakota, oklahoma, south carolina, and virginia. this is the kind of ban that is likely to not just completely ban all abortion but to also affect birth control and even fertility treatment. it's the kind of abortion and birth control ban that has failed every time it's been put to a vote, a popular vote, including in 2011 by the voters of mississippi. but it is being pushed right now in four states. there are new restrictions on how women are allowed to access medication abortions, the abortion pill. in alabama, indiana, iowa, missouri, mississippi, and texas 37 there are new forced ultrasound bills in indiana, missouri, mississippi, new mexico, wyoming. there's also that bill in new mexico that seeks to ban abortions for rape victims specifically based on the assertion that the pregnancy is evidence of the rape and so a doctor can be sent to prison for tampering with that evidence. that one's still truck right along. and in south dakota, which already passed the longest in the