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Originally posted by Moses
The number of young adult males is almost irrelevant to a populations growth. You assume that when there is a shortage of men, some women will go childless. That is not the case. Women rarely have difficulty finding a "volunteer" when they decide to reproduce.
Limit the number of young females and we could have a problem.
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There are other considerations as well. For example, in the south approximately 25% of the adult male population of reproductive age was killed, leaving a huge hole in the culture since those that volunteered to defend their country were arguably the "best and brightest" among the citizenry, and these men were lost abruptly. The effects of this, while difficult to measure quantitatively, were huge. The same was experienced by the major participants in World War One. The ruling class in Britain was devastated, for example.