Decadence

What I read in this chapter remined me of something I heard a while back. Dawkins here speaks mainly of parental investment, and how every parent is prepared to take on a certain amount of responsabilities and invest a certain amount of time and effort into their children and their welfare. I was told that in some foreign places such as Europe, people are deciding to stop having children and dedicate their lives to each other instead. Apparently this has become more and more common, and this leads me to wonder whether this has anyhting to do with our selfish gene. We humans are starting to care less each time about the developement of our kind. With this going on, and happening so often, Europpean countries are somewhat running out of young generations, and their population is now mainly senile. I found this to be rather interesting and peculiar, due to that it is not that often you come across people who don't look forward to becoming a family. This leads me to conlcuding that in fact our selfish gene is leading to our decadence, and our downfall.