In this book the author maintains that fertility declines independently of its background . Normally, fertility decline is thought to occur as a result of alteration in the socioeconomic background such as the decline of the infant mortality rate, urbanization, the level of literacy, and so on. This point of view has been regarded as equivalent to demographic transition . However, the concept of demographic transition is so superficial, naive and unscientific that it should be applied merely to the ostensible demographic phenomena, not to the mechanisms of fertility decline. The author...