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I wonder if quite a big part of the problem is that the one child policy normalised single child families for an entire generation. I know for certain that my
by leoedin 5y ago
I wonder if quite a big part of the problem is that the one child policy normalised single child families for an entire generation.
I know for certain that my wife and I both want to have another child because we both grew up with siblings and can see the lifelong benefits. Children are pretty hard work though, and there's been a lot of moments when we've thought "do I really want to go through all this again".
Take away the normalisation of multi child families and I bet a lot of people would just stick with one.
Which is of course a fairly hard problem to solve - if you aren't having 2.2 children per couple then your population is shrinking.
- carlmr 5y ago>Which is of course a fairly hard problem to solve - if you aren't having 2.2 children per couple then your population is shrinking. You can increase throughput with parallelization or speedups of single threaded performance. But procreation age is trending upwards, too so I guess this is rather theoretical.
- ZetaZero 5y agoYes, with the "One-Child" policy in effect for 36 years (1979–2015), an entire generation grew up with no siblings. With this being mandated, families just didn't plan for 2+ children. Maybe they bought a smaller house, or other lifestyle choices. Now you cannot just flip a switch and expect all of these families have multiple children.
- cute_boi 5y agoI think there is a switch and that is called incentives. We can see these tactics working at least on Japan. If China government starts providing huge incentives, tax breaks I think couple will think about multiple children. The only problem of China is they can't rely on migrants like west because they may still want cheap labors for manufacturing. And Japan has separate culture problems with migrants.