Governments spent decades pushing for delaying children and get higher education, promote persuing careers, moving to child unfriendly cities for high paying jobs so everybody can maximize their consumion of goods so the economy grow, and are now shocked when that all means less children.
I doubt it. Much of the same would happen with sane people in power.
The demographic transition:
means longer life spans (which means that older people use resources which would be used by new generations in a pre-transition society)
means lower infant mortality (which means that people don’t need to reproduce a lot, as their children have good chances of surviving childhood)
Whatever additional processes are in play, likely aren’t amenable to change either.
people have an increased tendency to have children after achieving economic certainty
Result: some never achieve it, some achieve it when less fertile or infertile, some when their own parents already need care.
people have an increased tendency for solitary lifestyle
Result: people live separately from their parents more often, and expect it as a criterion of normal life, as a result of which grandparents are less available to help with child care.
people have better education about their fertility
Result: children aren’t had accidentally.
Changing some politicians seems unlikely to change that, unless a new social agreement forms. What that agreement might be, I don’t know. I speculate it could be “considwe having children before building a career, to enable this, very strong welfare guarantees are offered to parents raising kids”.
Yeah just remove all the insane ppl in power around the world and we’ll hump like dogs
Give us a reason to want to bring kids into this world
Yeah, as soon as there’s dramatic climate action, representative just government, and universal healthcare + pre-K!
Governments spent decades pushing for delaying children and get higher education, promote persuing careers, moving to child unfriendly cities for high paying jobs so everybody can maximize their consumion of goods so the economy grow, and are now shocked when that all means less children.
I doubt it. Much of the same would happen with sane people in power.
The demographic transition:
means longer life spans (which means that older people use resources which would be used by new generations in a pre-transition society)
means lower infant mortality (which means that people don’t need to reproduce a lot, as their children have good chances of surviving childhood)
Whatever additional processes are in play, likely aren’t amenable to change either.
Result: some never achieve it, some achieve it when less fertile or infertile, some when their own parents already need care.
Result: people live separately from their parents more often, and expect it as a criterion of normal life, as a result of which grandparents are less available to help with child care.
Result: children aren’t had accidentally.
Changing some politicians seems unlikely to change that, unless a new social agreement forms. What that agreement might be, I don’t know. I speculate it could be “considwe having children before building a career, to enable this, very strong welfare guarantees are offered to parents raising kids”.
No shit. The rise of Christo-fascism has been a direct contributor to not wanting more kids.