Fertility rates in East Asia are plummeting at an alarming pace. Recent data highlight that Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the most impacted, with their total fertility rates (TFR) – a measure indicating the average number of children a woman would give birth to during her lifetime – sinking to
Highly developed capitalist countries tend to have low birth rates because people are alienated and atomized and having children is an untenable burden for workers who are already working themselves to exhaustion and barely getting by.
I think some people underestimate how obscenely expensive raising a baby is, borderline impossible without a strong support system
agree and i appreciate it, I think I was just getting too internet brained and thinking how often the issue is presented disingenuously in a vacuum or tied to a loss of 'cultural values' or w/e