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Birthrates are also declining outside of cities at similar rates [1]. It may be a little more apparent in expensive cities because childless people tend to not
by jonknee 7y ago
Birthrates are also declining outside of cities at similar rates [1]. It may be a little more apparent in expensive cities because childless people tend to not like suburbs and choose density if they can afford it, but I don't think cities are the root cause.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/10/19/us-fertility-rates-collapse-finger-pointing-blame-follow/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/10/19/us-fertilit...
- war1025 7y agoI've got my money on the "We spend twenty years telling adolescents that children are terrible and having them will ruin their life, so when the time comes they have to climb over a mountain of conditioning to even consider the idea" space.
- downrightmike 7y agoNo, people just grow up and see that people are assholes, progeny double so.
- patrickaljord 7y agoYou're saying kids are assholes? What?
- samhain 7y agoCould the internet, and the idea of things like "bodily consent" training that result in things like antinatalism be a cause for this? Or maybe that sort of reasoning about how we fit into this world is a result of that conditioning?