Has birth control and family planning led to the slowing down of growth rate and became the social norm today?

Do you think reasons like birth control, natural disaster, family planning, laws, kids being too expensive and infertility has led to the slowing down of the growth rate so that it has become the modern economic and social norm today?





I mean there's a faster than predicted decline in birth rate across the world, a lot of improvements in family planning and basic education across the world and even China's one child policy.





But then again





Statistics are LIES


Census are probably inaccurate.





So has it become a modern economic and social norm to have less children these days?Has birth control and family planning led to the slowing down of growth rate and became the social norm today?
Consider there was a time when a couple often had kids to help them work the farm or the family business. Nowadays large families aren't needed (at least not in most countries), there are more conveniences, more recreational activities, and more opportunities. A lot of women wait until an older age to start bearing children, and some (like myself) choose never to do so.





Having children isn't felt to be as mandatory as it once was...it's not our (females) reason for existing. We often have educations and careers and perhaps don't desire kids or as many kids...we prefer more freedom and free time, and less responsibility...not to mention it's insanely expensive to have and raise a child these days, and this world is not nearly as much an innocent and safe place for kids as at certain times in the past (at least in the US).





It's a scary and violent and unhealthy world out there...I wouldn't relish bringing up a child in it personally.