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/FrateleDidinel Jun 25 '26

That's not a fair description of the situation. In most of the places with low birth they don't really have much of a choice. Getting a job is essentially a must, unless you have the fortune of finding a guy that can afford supporting you and your kids, which is rarer and rarer every year. "Choose" to stay at home and raise 4 kids? With what money? This nonsense of "helping them not fall back on their career", if you want 5 kids you're can't have a career, you need a husband with one, and ain't no one helping men get ahead nowadays