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Re:Liberal societies have dangerously low birth rates by wetmore on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:56PM (#26507990)
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the sexual revolution. There are many other relevant factors that have changed since the 60s, such as the cost of owning a home and raising kids. People are less likely to have nearby family to share childrearing responsibilities, and so on. It's likely a confluence of factors.
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Re:Liberal societies have dangerously low birth rates by tptacek on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:39PM (#26509962)
The cost of owning a home has gone up, but so has the size of the average house, right?
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Re:Liberal societies have dangerously low birth rates by cloudfifty on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:24AM (#26510562)
Where I live that sort of problem - an ever increasing housing standard - is mostly brought by the house builders to increase profits, not necessarily by the average family's new found demands. Affordable housing in decent quality and like 80m2+ would never be unoccupied in a larger (western-)European city I reckon.
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Re:Liberal societies have dangerously low birth rates by patio11 on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:51PM (#26519325)
Good article on this, mostly for the graphs:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...

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Re:Liberal societies have dangerously low birth rates by ajmadesc on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:36AM (#26512545)
If you built smaller houses, people would buy them. Debt and Speculative ownership is are too cheap
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