True. I told my last great love that due to my advancing years, a minuscule income — I was starting a business that a big family was out of the question unless I had the net worth of David Letterman, for example.

However there is evidence of a decreased fertility rate. This may correlate more closely to the overall angst of the part of the 99% of the couples considering having children, but are faced with vast economic uncertainty, stagnating wages, coupled with facing a human extinction event. This may cause, oh I don’t know: grief, despair, fear, anxiety and depression. These are the effects of a collapsing culture where emotions such as these tend to constrict the body contributing to increased defenses from constrained places.

Everything’s connected. Long term effects of anxiety and depression especially when treated with pharmaceuticals contribute to the contraction of bodies. There is no scientific correlation here, but just looking through the lens of my college study of psycho-neurobiology and humanistic psychology the long-term effects of sorrow, grief, fear and anxiety have great impacts on the physical body. Pharmaceuticals interventions further complicate the problem with long-term side effects for a short term-fix. Sterility is a possible result when denial takes root, all that stress has to go somewhere. It doesn’t just go into symptoms of frustration, depression and rage alone, it also goes into the body.

Makes sense, yes?