Maybe the economy is transforming their choice on whether to have children or not. 🤔
What you’re referring to is accelerating the decline in births, but as economies develop, people have fewer kids. You don’t need to have 7 children expecting 2-4 to die from disease or war before reaching maturity. The decline started way back in the 1950s, which was during the booming economy in the USA.
Two people today cannot afford one child, let alone a house or retirement.
It’s not about quality of life improving, it’s the opposite in effect.
I don’t disagree. I already addressed that in the first sentence of my post.
It’s not about quality of life improving, it’s the opposite in effect.
The decline of childbirth didn’t start with that, it is merely accelerated by it.
I guess there is no single reason why people around the globe are having fewer children other than affordability. Women also have higher education. A UN Population Fund survey also cited a lack of suitable and supportive partner, expensive housing, concerns over the state of the world, paid family leave, and affordable fertility care.
But the birth rates are declining everywhere around the globe.
Here is a global comparison: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_recent_value_desc=false
Or a world map: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rate-by-country
Tl;dr:
Men are generally shit (thanks google)
Women have the agency to say no to the overwhelmingly shit men
Everyone whos not shit or stupid sees no fucking way can they afford kids
