I add about 1/2 cup of baking soda to every load of laundry. We have pretty hard water. The baking soda softens it so that it is more effective at washing away the detergent. Been doing this for a couple of years and I have noticed that our towels don't lose absorbency like towels we've had in the past.
The average number of children each woman will have over the course of her lifetime is called the Fertility Rate In 2011, the overall global life expectancy for both men and women was
Of the 14% of Americans aged 45 and older who do not have children, 50% say that if they had to do it over again, they would have at least one child. Combined, more than nine in 10 older Americans either have children (86%) or wish they had (7%). Americans' Ideal Number of Children per Family Stable for Decades. Americans say the ideal number of children per family is 2.6, which is on par with what Gallup has found since the late 1970s.