There is something genuinely really interesting happening with the general slide in birthrates, and it's equally interesting that none of the theories about how to address it (on the right or the left) seem to work
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Educated people don’t have big families they can’t afford.
sep 2, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it's inevitable. If you give women the option not to have children, some will chose that option. Plus in terms of what we value as a society, it's not attractive to have children. People wanna look good, make lots of money and have fun. Kids are an obstacle to that.
sep 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm pretty open to the former point, but if the societal desires are the main issue, it's very odd that the slide is seemingly happening everywhere!
sep 2, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Why is that odd? This is true everywhere
sep 2, 2025, 2:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, I think the value system that accompanies capitalism is pretty hegemonic. Even in non capitalist countries there's some influence.
sep 2, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
We need an extremely robust social safety net that makes it much, much easier (and safer) to have children. But we have to do that for its own sake, not as part of an intervention to produce more people
sep 2, 2025, 2:31 pm • 20 1 • view
Three things: 1. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 2. Theories that involve things like government-funded parental leave, increased work-from-home, cheaper child care, cheaper/free maternity care, etc. aren't implemented in many places. 3. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
sep 2, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the enviromental causes in particular are a graveyard everyone's been whistling past
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