The Prospect Of Female-Only Conception
This seems to be a bit of an older story, but it is the first I’ve heard of it. I wondered if any of you have heard this and what you think. Scientists have developed immature sperm cells from human bone marrow tissue.
“If these can be grown into fully developed sperm, which the researchers hope to do within five years, they may be useful in fertility treatments.”
It’s very interesting. The article explains a bit how bone marrow can be used to create sperm.





as opposed to 4.67 in 2003.
Everyone is relying on immigration to sustain their population but at the current rates, there will be no one left to immigrate anywhere except for the Middle East.
And the problem in many countries is that all the wrong people are having the children. Shan pointed out that there are a lot of unwanted pregnancies. It's the poor and uneducated who are having most of the babies and the wealthy often only have one. You are right, it is too bad that adoption is so expensive. We could get a lot of babies in good middle-class, educated homes who otherwise couldn't afford it if that were the case.
Don't know where I'm going with this. Just wanted to point out that we actually aren't suffering from a huge overpopulation problem. There are still plenty of open spaces. Even China has virtually cut their next-generation population in half.
BTW, most of my stat info came from America Alone by Mark Steyn. But my numbers aren't exact because I gave the book back to the library and couldn't check for accuracy.
What I think is funny is that Russia actually has this national conception day thing. The government gave everyone a day off work to go make babies. Anyone who gives birth 9 months from that date gets a huge money reward.