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I've wondered before if Japan's love for hot, daily baths has played some part in its low birthrate.

• ashtonkem 6y ago
  Maybe originally, but not anymore. Demographers regularly survey women in various countries about how many children they want to have, and in Japan women want to have on average 1 child, which means they’re having that many children by choice and not accident.
  • barry-cotter 6y ago
    Japanese women are having on average one child. They want two. > Japan is one such country that discrepancy between intended and observed levels of fertility is relatively large. For example, calculated from a nationally representative survey in 2010 (IPSS 2011), the average number of intended children among women aged 40-44 is 1.84, while their observed cohort total fertility is estimated to be 1.48 . These discrepancies between intended and observed fertility suggest social constraints on meeting intentions. https://paa2014.princeton.edu/papers/141630 https://paa2014.princeton.edu/papers/141630
    • ashtonkem 6y ago
      Ah, I seem to have been misinformed.