Re: The only thing meaningless is your drivel

Being fertile is not the same thing as being fully mature.

Most parents I know (and not all by any chance!) are not fully mature either.

It only seems that being mature is an issue very recently, for no clear reason.

You haven't spent a lot of time around poor people, have you?

Yes, most of them have children; most of them more than two children, whereas I know no couple born after 1965 or so which has both high income and more than two children.

I know you take delight in singling out the U.S. as everything that is wrong with the world, but that is simply your delusion.

Where the hell did you see any disapproval?! If anything, it is one of the few areas where I prefer the USA to any other rich or middle income country.

But here is where I get my delusion from:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html

The USA rank 125th, out of 225.

Whereas if you look at income
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html

The USA rank 11th, not around 100th.

You will notice that the lists have a very strong negative correlation and that yes, the USA is a very clear outlier.

So, please take your complaint to the CIA.

(Btw, the UN has lists that look very similar - just that the CIA has them more accessible)

kids are overwhelmingly healthier than they used to be (due to modern advances which makes food cheap and easily available),

Then that is not modern medicine, but development that you mean. :p

Which still leaves to be desired: African and Pacific Island Pygmies, and the Andamanese still mature faster while being less nourished than any other race. They sacrifice their height and general strength to earlier puberty because their diet is poor.

However, in general, the argument applies as long as you compare the same population with the same population. I grant that.

The women who had the longest lives of all before the 20th century were nuns. Wanna hazard a guess as to why that was?

Well, if you want to deny the power of prayer, do so.

If you want to deny the thousands of fetus and baby bones found around many monasteries, you can do that too.