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Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts

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Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Birth rates usually don’t fall because people don’t want kids, but because:

housing is too expensive
work and family are hard to combine
childcare isn’t well organized
there’s too little security Countries like France and the Scandinavian nations do better:
affordable childcare
parental leave
flexible work
stable housing certainty Result: higher birth rates than Japan, Italy, Spain, and formerly Germany. If you want a “younger” society → invest structurally in good family life.

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cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m a high school dropout and I knew this shit. Dumbass has no excuse.

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whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Go into any rural and/or poor area in America or Canada and you’ll find poor uneducated people and they’re having kids just fine even in wealthy countries with a lot of environmental factors pushing against it.

It’s a matter of want. Own your decision don’t blame it on external factors. If you want to blame external factors for your not having kids you’re weak. My girlfriend is Kenyan. She has a 11 year old son back home she hasn’t seen in a year. She had a kid in a small rural town halfway around the world and moved to Canada to make a better life for her and her family. You know what she’s never done? Push blame outwards.

Yes, structurally we can be doing a lot better to make it easier and more attractive for people to have kids but that was and is not my point. My point is if you want kids just fucking do it. The reward far outweighs the risk and long term you’re going to be much, much better off because you’ve just grown your team.

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- Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Get this guy a geography class RIGHT NOW
  
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  - whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You are sooooo limited in your thinking it’s really a shame. You don’t even know the conditions some people live in even in dense urban areas like Toronto while still having kids.
    
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