> (child quality gained at the expense of child quantity)
I'm skeptical of such a tradeoff, which seems to assume what Judith Harris dubbed "The Nurture Assumption". At least, if you can afford to feed all the children to keep them alive and healthy enough, which is the case in the first world where starvation is rare.
> (child quality gained at the expense of child quantity)
I'm skeptical of such a tradeoff, which seems to assume what Judith Harris dubbed "The Nurture Assumption". At least, if you can afford to feed all the children to keep them alive and healthy enough, which is the case in the first world where starvation is rare.