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Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by arcticbull on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:48AM (#37290247)
It is indeed literally a case of rich/educated people have fewer children. It’s called the demographic-economic paradox. [1]

There’s been a lot of research on this because the effect is so pronounced.

> In decreasing order of strength, fertility (TFR) correlates negatively with education, [contraceptive prevalence], and GDP per capita, and positively with religiosity. [2]

If you’re educated, rich, non-religious and can bone with impunity you have somewhere between 1 and 2 kids on average, well below the replacement rate of 2.1

It is absolutely a fantastic deal to have kids in Finland where you get months and months of mat and pat leave, etc, and their birth rate is 1.37

Israel is only high because they’re a religious ethnostate and religiosity as the studies show is positively correlated with fertility.

Respectfully I do think the data shows we should take this for granted.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

[2] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

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Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by zo1 on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:09AM (#37290414)
Just a smaller comment to a part of yours. Getting maternity/paternity leave of months is peanuts compared to 2 decades of rearing, and I don't think we can use that as "proof". Parenting is hard and we absolutely should be incentivizing it way more, not with leave, but with more financial subsidies and rewards.
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Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by arcticbull on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:45AM (#37292162)
Yeah I mean having kids sucks period, that’s why people who can afford to, don’t. Haha, at least that’s my read.
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