TY - BOOK AU - Longman,Phillip TI - The empty cradle: how falling birthrates threaten world prosperity and what to do about it SN - 9780465050505 AV - HB887.L856.E478 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group KW - Demographic transition KW - Age distribution (Demography) KW - Population KW - Fertility, Human KW - United States KW - Developed countries KW - Developing countries N1 - "A New American Book"; 4; 1 (pages 197-226) and index; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; fundamentalist moment --; Coffins and cradles --; America's vanishing labor supply --; new human environment --; People power --; Fading nations --; cost of children --; cost of aging --; slowing pace of progress --; Home economics --; Freedom and fertility --; Work and family --; Notes --; Index; 2 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003023840.html ER -