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>2) relation between women's education and total fertility Going by this map from 2018 [1], we can safely call it tested and confirmed in pretty much every cou
by dexen 7y ago
>2) relation between women's education and total fertility
Going by this map from 2018 [1], we can safely call it tested and confirmed in pretty much every country where women's education is the rule rather than the exception. Even India is marked as under 3. And the charts I've been shown recently (unfortunately can't find the link right now) were showing downward trends for several middle eastern countries too.
I'm not quite sure it's a healthy tread overall; there's just too many conflicting voices on that. Probably good half of them are boomers afraid of their super safe investment in real estate turning not so hot in the end.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fertility_rate_world_map_2.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fertility_rate_world_map_...
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- ahje 7y ago>Probably good half of them are boomers afraid of their super save investment in real estate turning not so hot in the end. It's not just about that; many boomers are justifiably worried about what will happen to them when they grow old and can't take care of themselves. The real-estate investments were probably supposed to fund their own vision of their last years and now they're realising they might be stuck with no money, no family to support them, while sitting in some prime real estate that nobody wants. In hindsight, I do wonder what the hell my grandparents' generation was thinking back in the day; one would think that they would have realised that women taking part in the work force, legalized abortion and proper distribution of contraceptives would result in lower birth-rates, but no, they had to build a house of cards with nothing to keep it standing except for constant population growth.