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What about not having kids because of government corruption? A violent police state that keeps growing? A multi-trillion dollar deficit that will never go away?
by darksaints 5y ago
What about not having kids because of government corruption? A violent police state that keeps growing? A multi-trillion dollar deficit that will never go away? Housing, Health Care, and Education expenses that grow at >3× the inflation rate? Chemical, Nuclear, and Drone warfare?
- daxfohl 5y agoMy guess is people of Afghanistan won't stop having kids even though their conditions are much worse, so none of that stuff probably makes a difference at scale. Though of course individual circumstances and decisions may vary.
- darksaints 5y agoWhile still high, as in every other poor and uneducated country, Afghanistan has had a very interesting trajectory since the early 2000s: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=AF https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThe women of Afghanistan would most certainly stop having kids if they had the choice. The only reason "people" of Afghanistan continue having kids is because the women there do not have a choice. They need access to effective and convenient birth control like IUDs, pills, vasectomies, condoms, and most importantly, women's financial independence. Given these things, birth rates drop around the world in almost all cultures since childbirth is a very costly thing for women, and who only in recent decades have gained control of it.