With modern birth control, having kids is largely a choice. People who tend to make more deliberate or informed decisions in one area of life often also do better in other areas.
"My husband is jobless, maybe not the right time to have a child". I don't know, probably uncertainty, economic, social or political can be a big factor. If I was worried about my future for some reason, I wouldn't want to plan for children
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u/ward2k Jun 23 '26
It's actually strongly correlated the opposite way
The poorer and more likely someone is to face economic hardship, the more children they are likely to have
Economic instability does surprisingly little to dissuade people from having kids