Somehow people think that less development means more children, but this is not the case. In this article I want to tell the truth: it is feminism and the general destruction of the family that is the cause, as the belief spreads that government can substitute the family.
How is it in third world nations
In third world nations everybody knows that the state cannot save you and that the best way to guarantee some stability is to have many sons and daughters and a strong family, where mutual love is the thing that makes one help each other in situations of need. And everybody knows that those family members will also measure and evaluate if you are doing everything that is in your power in order to get out of your bad situation. If you are just lazy the support will drop for sure.
The state in first world countries on the contrary just hands out money without evaluating your situation with the same scrutiny. The more errors you make, the more money you get. In many situations the subsidies can be as high as a low income wage, especially in the US and Western Europe. If you start working your subsidies are just been replaced by a wage which after all the deductions equals the subsidies you had before. So essentially there is no incentive to work for dumber people anymore, at least in the beginning. This demotivates people to start working and they never get the opportunity to climb up the ladder...
The good side of this is that there is in third world countries never the dependence on the state, and so the system is stable and cannot crash. People care about their children much more in regards to their ability to help them when they are older and need help. You can see in this something like a pension with love. You give them love and care about them, so when you are old you will receive the same love and caring back.
It is like with the banking system. If less than 50% have an account they do not care if the banking system crashes.
In first world nations it is like this
People prefer to not have toddlers cry and have not to worry about them or take them to school or anything. The majority "knows" that the pensions are there to care for them, the government insurance for a home in a residence for the elderly. Not the children will care for them, but an underpaid (and frustrated) nurse. This nurse obviously does not give shit about the stories the elderly person tells them. They just change you your diapers once a week and injects you medication to keep you calm.
The good thing is that you can boost government in the short term, as young women who typically try to study and work until they are 40, bring in much needed taxes. If they would have a toddler and care for him and give him love the whole day, there is no way to get any money to the government. And right now the situation is already critical as more and more pension funds are in trouble due to the problem that they do not have any income because of the zero interest policy in the first world.
In the mid-term you can imagine that the impossibility for "smart", working women without children will lead to some problems, in the next generations, but this is a long-term problem and as John Maynard Keynes said "In the long-term we are all dead". Now that we have been living for generations in a keynesian system, we already see the implications for society... Only the lower classes multiply and gain political influence
Feminism is essential for a growing state
This is a perfect vicious circle: Dumber and more ugly women are feminists, the more stupid women are, the more feminism, the more necessity for the state and the more powerful the state becomes. If the state is more powerful the more women can lean on the state instead of a caring husband.
Political Correctness is also essential for a growing state
It is important that those things cannot be said openly, as it is quite obvious that this is true and that the sustainable approach would be the family instead of the state. No Journalist would write this today in an article, he would be fired without hesitation. I would advise anybody to not tell those truths out loud... in today's situation this would equal a suicide.