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The most direct conclusion is that people didn't really /want/ to have kids, they didn't have a choice or they felt they needed to have large families for other
by nemomarx 3y ago
The most direct conclusion is that people didn't really /want/ to have kids, they didn't have a choice or they felt they needed to have large families for other social reasons (like risks of those kids dying, the need for people to take care of you later in life, cultural assumptions).
If you change contraception and push culture a bit, people's revealed preferences are saving money or spending it on themselves over having kids, is all. This seems to basically track across every region.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> spending it on themselves over having kids Not at all, it’s that having kids used to be financially beneficial for parents, and now it’s horrendously expensive. The situation changed 180 And in addition, threat of climate change means you aren’t sure into what kind of world you are bringing children