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Re:We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US by tzs on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:01AM (#26341784)
That reminds me of something I’ve occasionally wondered about.

Just in terms of total population and ignoring all else such as quality of life and economic impacts, is alcohol’s net effect to lower population growth (drunk driving deaths and such) or to raise population growth (drunk sex or other related poor decisions)?

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Re:We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US by coldpie on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:18AM (#26341928)
It doesn't answer the question you posed, but I read a study[1] just yesterday that estimated that the largest factor of young people having less casual sex now than they did ten years ago is a reduction in drinking rates. It was still a minor factor (explains about 25% of the drop, by their estimation), but it seems less alcohol use does correlate with less casual sex.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023121996854

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