You can’t even pay people to have more kids
You can’t even pay people to have more kids
These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.
These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.
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If history is any guide, none of this will work: No matter what governments do to convince them to procreate, people around the world are having fewer and fewer kids.
In the US, the birth rate has been falling since the Great Recession, dropping almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022. Today, the average American woman has about 1.6 children, down from three in 1950, and significantly below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children needed to sustain a stable population. In Italy, 12 people now die for every seven babies born. In South Korea, the birth rate is down to 0.81 children per woman. In China, after decades of a strictly enforced one-child policy, the population is shrinking for the first time since the 1960s. In Taiwan, the birth rate stands at 0.87.
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I would love to have kids, a couple, one girl one boy. But not in this fucked up system.
There are so many reasons why we won't have kids. 1: money, we can't afford what we have now! How the hell we gonna pay 300000 and more over at least 18 years for a kid? 2: older gens have told us we're worthless and lazy. 3: the current political climate and actual climate, why the fuck would we want to bring a child into this bullshit system?