A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.