by Better-Analysis-2694

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  1. Finland needs more people. Here I am applying for jobs with no success. Why do they need news babies? I dont understand this mathematics.

  2. I had a vasectomy, so I guess I’m part of the problem!

  3. Who even wants to bring child to this world anymore, when there is different wars going, climate change is increasing, economy is going down, lots of burnouts, people are more divided and black knight is obtilerating villages

  4. If you have the right person on your side, then the work stability is the key. I live in Finland from 2019 and the longest contract I had was for 2 years. Basically I alternated short contracts (sometimes consecutive) and short periods of unemployment. Now, in this scenario, how the hell should I even plan or dream to have children? Most of time I’m scared for my economical stability with an outlook of being unemployed every time within 1 year or closer. How can I think to take responsibility for another human? Should we go back to those times when poor families had children just to raise new work force? No thanks.

  5. Well the perks are really not there.

    If you live in Helsinki, when the child turns 1 they drop the money in half. So you are forced to but the child in kindergarten, even though there is a huge crisis in early childhood education.

    So no thanks

  6. Why on earth would women agree to being scammed into pregnancy, birth, doing majority of the child rearing AND having to work to pay the bills? No. Until men learn to provide for their families again, we aren’t interested.

  7. UN and Brussels already has a plan, they call it replacement migration.

  8. Perks are good to avoid burn-out, but perks are not what makes you choose to have children.

    1. Stable partner

    2. Stable income

    3. Supporting network i.e. family that lives close enough.

    A majority of the adult working-age population has 1. and 2. covered. But 3. is in direct conflict with the individualist (sometimes international) career-focused life with both partners working full-time. Even just moving from Kuopio or whatever to Helsinki to study, finding a partner and settling down, means that you already have 2 parents less to help out and give you as a parent a chance to get away once in awhile.

    Also, the 0. point could be actually wanting kids and somehow people don’t seem to even get the point of kids.

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