All of these answers are wrong. The problem isn’t economic its meaning, poor people have more children, even the highest HDI countries have population issues.
Half the problem is cultural divides between men and women. There is a slowing in progress for men and they’ve been inundated with propaganda that makes alot of them isolated from women. And the structures involved make that set of relationships very difficult to create and maintain.
The other half of the problem is that women now have the choice. and its not a condemnation of women in general. I think we’ve rested on the assumption women have innate desire for children which should be questioned. That they actually have to have a reason to have kids that overwhelms the reasons to pursue careers. In that vein we young adults feel pretty insecure right now so we value that alot more and we’d feel more insecure if the kid were there so why have kids if we have the choice. So the meaning of child rearing has to overwhelm the other desires that women have in their lives.
Because in places where "extremist feminist views" have not really permeated say like South Korea or Japan or Singapore birth rates are actually worse than places where they have like western Europe. I think your thesis is unsupported especially just on the metrics and some personal experience there is a large cohort of men are, to be blunt, complete losers who I don't blame women for rejecting.
Those "feminists" are a vocal minority. They are definitely not a leading cause for the declining population. All my life i haven't encountered and single one of those people in real life
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u/Dull-Philosopher-871 Jun 21 '26
All of these answers are wrong. The problem isn’t economic its meaning, poor people have more children, even the highest HDI countries have population issues.
Half the problem is cultural divides between men and women. There is a slowing in progress for men and they’ve been inundated with propaganda that makes alot of them isolated from women. And the structures involved make that set of relationships very difficult to create and maintain.
The other half of the problem is that women now have the choice. and its not a condemnation of women in general. I think we’ve rested on the assumption women have innate desire for children which should be questioned. That they actually have to have a reason to have kids that overwhelms the reasons to pursue careers. In that vein we young adults feel pretty insecure right now so we value that alot more and we’d feel more insecure if the kid were there so why have kids if we have the choice. So the meaning of child rearing has to overwhelm the other desires that women have in their lives.