Re:More Americans say they’re not planning to have a child, ...
by toomuchtodo on Sunday November 21, 2021 @05:52PM
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How do you square this with the fact that the birth rate is also low in European countries with reasonable cost of living and robust safety nets.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Maybe people just don’t want kids when they’re educated.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/womens-educational-attain...
Re:More Americans say they’re not planning to have a child, ...
by 1270018080 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @06:22PM
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It's also still expensive to do have kids in Europe anyway. Safety nets aside. They purchasing power per capita is lower than in America.
Re:More Americans say they’re not planning to have a child, ...
by heavyset_go on Sunday November 21, 2021 @07:37PM
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Cost of living has been rising across the EU, as well. You can see it most obviously in the international cities.
Re:More Americans say they’re not planning to have a child, ...
by holonomically on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:02PM
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Then it's better to address those problems directly instead of scare monger about declining birth rates because the world has plenty of people and will continue to have more for the foreseeable future.
The key reason why young Americans don’t want to have children is because the cost of living including raising a child has been exploding for last 20yrs. Housing, healthcare, insurance, student loans and cost of education- all have gone up exponentially when the actual wages have not gone up.
Immigration is a workaround but it has inevitable side effects. Including dilution of labor, assimilation and not to say many Of the core issues mentioned above affect immigrants alike.