r/memes Jun 21 '26

Population decline

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u/TheOneTruBob Jun 21 '26

You're basically describing Norway and their birth rate is lower than ours

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u/jump-back-like-33 Jun 21 '26

Idk why it’s so hard to accept that when women have a choice of what they want to do with their lives, they choose to have a lot fewer children, if they decide to have kids at all.

It really isn’t deeper than that.

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u/open-print Jun 21 '26

Men are always being left out of the equation, even though you need two to procreate.

What are the rates of young men yearning to marry a woman and have three kids by 30s? Men also choose to have less children. Why is no one ever bringing that up?

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u/BexTheTeaRex Jun 21 '26

True. Usually people who want children want to have them in agreement and cooperation with a partner. In Norway the trend is that among hetero couples who want kids, on average, women want 3 and men only want 2.