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I think the same thing is happening all across the world: women are becoming more educated and independent and with birth control they choose to have less kids.
by weatherlite 4y ago
I think the same thing is happening all across the world: women are becoming more educated and independent and with birth control they choose to have less kids. That's also happening in the West.
How otherwise would you explain falling birth rates everywhere?
Indian is seeing falling rates and many places in the Middle East and Africa. This can't be explained by some government policy.
- rayiner 4y ago> This can't be explained by some government policy. There are massive government programs to suppress the birth rate in India, the Middle East, and Africa, for development reasons. My dad spent his career working on those programs.
- weatherlite 4y agoI'm unaware of any government intervention in say Iran or Lebanon yet the birth rate has dropped significantly there. I do think in most of the world young people find themselves faced with unaffordable living costs and an uncertain economic future, which probably reduces the amount of kids they have, but that's not really intentional policy and it again comes back to my point that women can now choose not to have kids and even not to marry.