While somewhat interesting, this could just be revealing an aging population, so it would be more helpful to use an adjusted statistic or look at births for women of specific ages.
Didn’t China have a one child policy since the 70s or something?
And people will wonder “Why are people not having children?” doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out
I would love to see a graph of the average age that women are having children in all these countries tied to how many births.
That tells a better story of what 20-50 years will look like from now in each country.
I dont want to be a china doomer but i dont see how they can recover from this. Especially since its a country built upon a strong han identity so mass immigration would cause a lot of issues for them
So women in China, on average, exceeded the one child policy for decades, by a lot? Something feels off here- maybe just my understanding, but something…
One thing that no one really talks about is that we’ve changed childhood in a way that is hard for parents as well as kids.
All these horror stories you hear of kids being forced to go to afternoon school and test prep and music lessons and chess lessons and so on, is a huge load on the parents’ time too.
Kid’s style barely used to exist. Hand-me-downs and bowl cuts and patch jeans were normal. Now even poor kids are expected to have branded clothes and fresh cuts.
In the 90s they ran ads on TV – “It’s 10pm, do you know where your kids are?” Just imagine the difference in mental load vs what’s considered normal today.
Even small stuff like going with your kids instead of dropping them off somewhere ads up. Or being required to pick up/drop-off even if you live in walking distance of school. Or living somewhere that your kids aren’t allowed to play outside by themselves.
That doesn’t even touch having to navigate iPad/TV/porn/gambling/pedos/all you sick fucks on the Internet.
It used to be “normal” to barely watch your kids but sometime around the 90s the pendulum began to swing the other way and society has largely normalized helicopter parenting. This dramatically increases the labor per child and IMO is an underappreciated cause for people having fewer kids.
The same people who are against immigration were the ones on the soap box crying about social policies that supported mothers and families…….
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While somewhat interesting, this could just be revealing an aging population, so it would be more helpful to use an adjusted statistic or look at births for women of specific ages.
Didn’t China have a one child policy since the 70s or something?
And people will wonder “Why are people not having children?” doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out
I would love to see a graph of the average age that women are having children in all these countries tied to how many births.
That tells a better story of what 20-50 years will look like from now in each country.
I dont want to be a china doomer but i dont see how they can recover from this. Especially since its a country built upon a strong han identity so mass immigration would cause a lot of issues for them
So women in China, on average, exceeded the one child policy for decades, by a lot? Something feels off here- maybe just my understanding, but something…
One thing that no one really talks about is that we’ve changed childhood in a way that is hard for parents as well as kids.
All these horror stories you hear of kids being forced to go to afternoon school and test prep and music lessons and chess lessons and so on, is a huge load on the parents’ time too.
Kid’s style barely used to exist. Hand-me-downs and bowl cuts and patch jeans were normal. Now even poor kids are expected to have branded clothes and fresh cuts.
In the 90s they ran ads on TV – “It’s 10pm, do you know where your kids are?” Just imagine the difference in mental load vs what’s considered normal today.
Even small stuff like going with your kids instead of dropping them off somewhere ads up. Or being required to pick up/drop-off even if you live in walking distance of school. Or living somewhere that your kids aren’t allowed to play outside by themselves.
That doesn’t even touch having to navigate iPad/TV/porn/gambling/pedos/all you sick fucks on the Internet.
It used to be “normal” to barely watch your kids but sometime around the 90s the pendulum began to swing the other way and society has largely normalized helicopter parenting. This dramatically increases the labor per child and IMO is an underappreciated cause for people having fewer kids.
The same people who are against immigration were the ones on the soap box crying about social policies that supported mothers and families…….
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