Declining Birth Rates
This cluster discusses reasons for falling fertility rates and why people are choosing not to have children, including cultural shifts, women's education and empowerment, economic factors, contraception, and personal preferences over family life.
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It explains why people arent having kids for sure.
Money is not the issue according to this from 4 days agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44529456According to that the issue is culture. We, as a species, have effectively just changed into people who no longer want kids (on average). Changing culture is hard. Sure, every little economic reason might have been some small influence on that culture but fixing the monetary issues will not sudd
Citation to back up your comment: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
Top income brackets aren't really having more than 2 children either, which is a requirement for growing population. Like most studies has shown that, in general, educated women, freedom of choice and etc. will negatively impact birthrates. It's the same thing everywhere. Sure, income, less social pressure and etc. affects it somehow, but there's just no real need in general to have 3 kids in this day and age. Asking a woman to give away at the bare minimum 6 years of their youth
Also a lot of people don't want children. It's a lot of responsabilities and constraints, so you need to feel the desired for it.The new generation grew with aids, feel less influenced by the authority selling the one family lifestyle and use more contraception.Now wait for Vasalgel to take off. When males will have total control of their involvment in pregnancy, you will see the numbers go down even more. And probably some serious changes in the man/woman dynamics.
In the past, more people wanted to have children. Every year, that percentage seems to be decreasing [1]. Birth control mostly decreases chances of unwanted pregnancies, and that is good, in my opinion. How do we make people want to have children? Well, that's the hard problem that every developed country seems to be facing, and nobody has found substantial success so far.To be fair, I am a part of the problem as well. The opportunity loss for people in their late 20s to have a child is
People overwhelmingly view the ideal number of children to have as way more than we're having. [1] So people are likely choosing to not having children for other reasons.[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/694640/americans-ideal-family-s...
And now you see why no one is having children nowadays. It's the natural order of late stage capitalism. Having children is just not rewarding from a cost-benefit analysis
… As in people are choosing not to have kids
and thus why no one is having kids