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Breeding the future

Explore the ideal number of children based on social variables and how they differ from the realized number of children.

Written byRazib Khan
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Some results from the GSS on what people perceive the ideal number of children is based on social variables. Additionally, the realized number of children the respondent has. I limited the sample to whites who were 40 or older (there are people who have children past 40, but I assume that most of the discrepancy, or not, between ideal and realized will be evident by that age).

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