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How do you respond to this comment? seems an environmental factor is at play as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32580631#32588473 https://news.ycomb

• lotsofpulp 4y ago
  I guess I do not know enough about South Korean fertility to make a credible claim, but if most of the fertility decline is due to birthing children at older ages, then I would file that under the same category as women gaining financial independence and ability to choose when to have kids. Women basically saying in order for me to risk what I have to risk to have a child(ren), I need <x> security first. Which can manifest as working to save and achieve higher income levels instead of having kids. But I suppose there could be a huge environmental or whatever biological factor causing reduced pregnancies. Marriage rates might help tease this out. Edit: from 2019 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/til-death-do-i-stay-single-south-koreas-nomarriage-women https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/til-death-do-i-s... > A decade ago, almost 47 per cent of single and never-married Korean women said they thought marriage was necessary. >Last year, that fell to 22.4 per cent, while the number of couples getting hitched slumped to 257,600 - down from 434,900 in 1996.
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