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Procreation isn't limited to marriage.

• daenz 7y ago
  Please don't strawman me by suggesting that I'm saying only married people have children. The article also talks about the lack of desire to have children due to the desire for independence, and talks about how it's also a factor in the lack of desire for marriage.
  • mnem 7y ago
    I simply misunderstood what you were saying - it seemed quite a non-sequitur from the main point of the article. I think it's a little premature to assume that the population of Japan is going to die out. One of the points mentioned is that few Japanese women have children out of wedlock - I imagine this will change as time moves on and fewer couples marry, similar to other countries. However, I think the main challenge with posing the question "have there been other human cultures that die out due to a lack of desire to procreate" is that culture is quite an ephemeral thing - what would it mean to die out? As an aside, is strawman a verb these days? Language is hard to keep up with.
    • daenz 7y ago
      I see what you mean. Maybe my question does have a hidden assumption that it is even possible for a culture to die out from a lack of procreation. I'm just trying to better understand the problem... sub-replacement fertility rates seems to be a new development, and nobody seems to know how it plays out in the long run in the modern world.
    • pixl97 7y ago
      A 'culture' can die by being replaced by another culture. Of course the most common means of death to a culture is loss of material resources leading to population decline, such as Easter island.
• AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  > Procreation isn't limited to marriage. True, but the fact remains that the fertility rate is below the population replacement rate as well.