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Declining birth rate is a symptom, not a disease. Immigration may be a workaround but not a fix. The key reason why young Americans don’t want to have children
by mercy_dude 5y ago
Declining birth rate is a symptom, not a disease. Immigration may be a workaround but not a fix.
The key reason why young Americans don’t want to have children is because the cost of living including raising a child has been exploding for last 20yrs. Housing, healthcare, insurance, student loans and cost of education- all have gone up exponentially when the actual wages have not gone up.
Immigration is a workaround but it has inevitable side effects. Including dilution of labor, assimilation and not to say many
Of the core issues mentioned above affect immigrants alike.
- holonomically 5y agoThen it's better to address those problems directly instead of scare monger about declining birth rates because the world has plenty of people and will continue to have more for the foreseeable future.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoHow do you square this with the fact that the birth rate is also low in European countries with reasonable cost of living and robust safety nets. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Fertility_statistics https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... Maybe people just don’t want kids when they’re educated. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/womens-educational-attainment-vs-fertility https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/womens-educational-attain...
- heavyset_go 5y agoCost of living has been rising across the EU, as well. You can see it most obviously in the international cities.
- 1270018080 5y agoIt's also still expensive to do have kids in Europe anyway. Safety nets aside. They purchasing power per capita is lower than in America.