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None of this content-free, rambling thread addresses major risks of motherhood. These include: - death (giving birth is more dangerous than birth control or ab
by smt88 1y ago
None of this content-free, rambling thread addresses major risks of motherhood. These include:
- death (giving birth is more dangerous than birth control or abortion)
- financial insecurity (can you get a job if you lose your co-parent?)
- hopelessness (many women don't want to bring a child into a world with existential issues like climate change)
And there are many more. Not a single one was addressed by this tweet.
- lazide 1y agoThese factors have always been present. If anything, they’re less of a concern now than they were historically.
- naijaboiler 1y agoCorrect. This the first article that I have read that has the right solution to declining fertility. Miss often than not, I see it framed as an economic problem needing more economic solutions. This article hit the nail on the head. It is also a socio-cultural problem. And social cultural solutions work far better than purely economic solutions.
- Sabinus 1y agoI think the issue we're having is that encouraging women to have children is more of a traditionalist/conservative/right social norm and we're not geared for that kind of social change in the West.
- lazide 1y agonot geared for that kind of social change? that’s quite the statement. the pendulum swings regardless. And clearly is picking up momentum back that direction.
- more_corn 1y agoAll of those concerns are on the rise in the US.
- smt88 1y agoWhy does it matter if they've always been present? Children were historically used as slaves and retirement plans. As economies become more advanced, families need less of both of those things. So a major economic benefit of having kids is gone and women are more afraid of the risks. Telling someone "X was worse in the past" doesn't make them suddenly stop worrying about it.
- lazide 1y agoIt means those aren’t the cause of a sudden change in behavior, since they aren’t new. The other factors may be, and would therefore be more of a causitive factor eh?
- smt88 1y agoI didn't say they're the cause. They are a risk, and they've always been a risk. Historically, the risk outweighed the reward (or women just weren't free enough to make a decision either way). That's not the case anymore.
- lazide 1y ago‘women just weren't free enough to make a decision either way‘ that’s the actual truth, yes. but the recent shift in decisions also has consequences, and the western world in particular is struggling with those consequences.