These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse
drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. … 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.
The comments section absurd. Just everything from ethnonationalism to personal grievance politics. Not an optimistic take to be seen.
Having kids is a choice people should have. If they don't want them, they don't have to have them. There should be options for handling that between sexual education, contraception, sterilization, abortion, adoption, etc.
Forcing people to either extreme of that is not acceptable. It just seems like common sense that people should be able to make those choices for themselves and their families. You don't have to like it.
That's all not even getting to the replacement theory bullshit
Having kids is a choice people should have. If they don't want them, they don't have to have them. There should be options for handling that between sexual education, contraception, sterilization, abortion, adoption, etc.
Forcing people to either extreme of that is not acceptable. It just seems like common sense that people should be able to make those choices for themselves and their families. You don't have to like it.
That's all not even getting to the replacement theory bullshit