Well the 1960's made birth control popular, and there was a lot of it. Around 1985 the Preppies and the Punk Rockers took over for the Hippies, Disco People, and the Nerds. Nerds, unlike their counterparts, didn't have sex very often or sometimes not at all. I was a Computer Nerd, couldn't even get a date for the prom, so I didn't go. I graduated from High School in 1986, still a virgin.

Anyway after the 1985's they had discovered AIDS and other illnesses. Yet people still kept on popping out kids. Then the Teenagers got really weird and silly, made the Punk Rockers look like Beaver Cleaver. I think I lost track of the "Hip" stuff when "Marylin Manson" and "Gansta Rappers" took over the minds of the teenagers. Not that I was ever "Hip" mind you, but I never got invited to any parties or social events.

The 1990's must have brought back the illresponsibility, the unprotected sex, the high birth rate, and teenage mothers popping out babies every 9 months or a year or so. Enough to drive the birthrate up.

Whatever passes for a society in our culture, apparently didn't "catch on" in Europe?