Thank you for posting this, I went looking as soon as I saw the first reply to the topic saying the reason was money. I think I read an article about Korea tha

Thank you for posting this, I went looking as soon as I saw the first reply to the topic saying the reason was money. I think I read an article about Korea that attributed the precipitous drop in birthrate to an advertising campaign that equated children to being a burden in order to lower what was at the time a very high birthrate. To my mind, the most likely reason is that for most people having kids is not a priority. Need more money, worried about climate change/terrorism/fear-in-vogue, etc. I have two kids, they were born when I was in my 30's. I wish that I could have had them earlier...you are able to recover more when you are younger.