Determine the population growth rates
Birth control meant that those who didn't wish to have more children can exercise their choice. Parents began to find more satisfaction out of having a few children and paying a great deal of attention to each. Resources of the average household continued to increase however the number of children born fell. The long-run relationship between levels of productivity and population growth rates wasn't--as Malthus thought--a spiral of ever-faster population growth rates as material standards of living increased. In place of population growth rates peaked and began to decline