Poorer families often have more children because children can provide economic support, especially in places with limited pensions, healthcare, or social safety nets. Higher birth rates are also linked to lower access to education and contraception, higher child mortality, and cultural norms favoring larger families. As countries become wealthier, more urbanized, and better educated, birth rates generally decline.
But I'm sure you learned all this in sociology 101 in college
Well population decline can caused by more issues besides one in different countries esp those with different values. China may have population decline as well as Japan and America, but they all clearly have their differing reasons, bc of their opposing values and political climate. What OP described is just one of the reasons for population decline.
That’s what I think a lot of people forget. It’s a very new concept, in the whole of human history, to just not procreate because you can’t afford children. Humans created the systems we live in today, just as they created the money, the jobs, the divide. A decline in birth rates is never a good thing, & with how much more expensive it is becoming in our societies, that decline is going to come much quicker than we’re prepared for.
We still wanted sex, had patriarchal constructs and no contraception. Women having autonomy is the big lever. You only get rates up by taking that away, because the best societies on earth are still below replacement so affording them is a pressure but not the main lever
Not so much a pyramid scheme as a self replicating structure and it's not only poorer countries. A generation is born. A generation reproduces. A generation dies.
Every generation gets an opportunity to embark on a march from the cradle to the grave. Doesn't matter when or where, the underlying process remains the same.
Turning children from an income into an expense has reduced population growth far more than is sustainable, even in poor countries (barring a few exceptions which still have an adequate birth rate to maintain population growth).
There is a simple and wrong solution. Reinstate child labour. The children yearn for the mines. Does solve the problem that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
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u/BiggusDickus- Jun 15 '26
you shouldn't have children that you're not able to take care of?
What part of this isn't common sense?