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Even the most subtle and profound philosophers cannot fully explain the relationship between individual decisions and external circumstances. Nobody can deny, on the one hand, that decisions are made by individuals, nor, on the other hand, that external circumstances influence them. This is certainly the case in respect of decisions to beget children. Those of us who work with statistics find significant relationships between fertility and various external circumstances, which, in a sense, we can describe as causal. But we should never forget that every decision is ultimately an individual one.
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Clark, C. (1977). The Sociology of Reproduction. In: Population Growth and Land Use. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15775-4_6
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