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Baby Decline: Births in Japan Drop for the Tenth Successive Year
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Well yeah. You gotta raise pay and job security if you want people to get married and have kids. Pretty simple, right?
recently half of their population is in a heated argument because one of their female mayor is taking a maternity leave.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mykzj15xno
im not holding my breath
These things are negatively correlated with birth rates. The most strongly positively correlated are a misogynist, patriarchal culture, lack of access to family planning, and especially poverty.
How about housing security? How about actively improving the lives of citizens, and ensuring their children are better off than they are? Giving them something to hope for rather than corporate dictatorship and ecological collapse?
No developed economy offers any alternative atm. Acting as though fascist dystopia or gilead could be a solution "coz statistics" is legitimately insane; an insanity that is a symptom of the systemic failure.
Sounds great. But there's not much reason to expect those things to lead to high birth rates.
You say that but if I could have a afforded a house kids would have been on the table. I cant even consider children with no available stable grand parents and no way to afford a home and pay for babysitting at same time. Thanks to that, me or my SO have full time home maker and we can't afford that currently. More Money or cheaper housing would solve my problem at least.
I say that because it's true, and the USA has higher birth rates than most countries where your considerations are barely relevant at all. As it happens, the USA also has higher poverty rates, a more misogynist and patriarchal culture, and less access to family planning than these countries.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."
This can’t be true, Africa is one of the most positive on all those features and it’s got a population boom going on, especially poverty, same in India
access to family planning and contraception reduces family size
"Positively correlated" means that if something is increased, something else is also increased.
Birth rates and poverty are positively correlated, meaning that higher birth rates and higher poverty tend to go together.