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Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says by morsch on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:55AM (#44233054)
That was my reaction as well. They're probably referring to something along these lines: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046
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Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says by mdeeks on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:03AM (#44233117)
Doesn't this study say that it had a very low impact?

> they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980

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Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says by alexey-salmin on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:15AM (#44233202)
The paper also estimates the number of children saved at 57 per year, so the safety impact is even lower
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Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says by morsch on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @06:44AM (#44235111)
Let's call it 80 and you get a rate of 1:100 children saved per children not conceived. What would be a reasonable rate in your mind?
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Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says by Yossarrian22 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:11AM (#44236373)
Car seat design has improved you can readily fit three car seats in most vehicles these days
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Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says by baseballdork on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:20AM (#44237125)
This is a weirdly funny thread. How many theoretical children would you trade for 1 real child? All over a car seat that perhaps prevented 4,000 additional births a year?
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