Cross-cultural issues in gynecology and obstetrics

Abstract

If for some inexplicable reason, no children-not a single child-were to be born for the next 100 years or longer, the human race would come an end. The earth would become a barren planet. No traces would remain. But short of a meteor the size of our planet crashing onto the earth, such an eventuality is unlikely to happen, unless of course a supremely powerful megalomaniac, of which there are quite a few scattered round the world, were to order nuclear weapons to be dropped all over the world, which would inevitably lead to The End of History and the Last Man-the chilling title of Francis Fukuyama's book (1). It is a possibility that does not bear consideration.