Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate

Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by mindwok on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:24PM (#42776177)

I believe the answer is that there is far more interesting things to do with your life. It's quite easy to imagine a life where you're occupied up to your mid thirties with things like university, starting a career in a field you're actually interested in, maybe moving locations once or twice, travelling, working overseas. This plays out even at the relationship level: people in their 20's are far less committal, and prefer the freedom to explore what life has to offer.

Compare this to even just 50 years ago. These options were limited to the highest classes of society. People tended to settle down and have children because that was the sensible next thing to do in life.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by jazz9k on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:39PM (#42776321)

I did all of this by 30 and started a family shortly after this. Kids are hard (I have two), but I wouldn't change anything.

I know multiple single people in their 50s and 60s with no kids and they are all miserable human beings.

Another issue is that most of your peers at that age are raising a family and have less time to get together, making it very lonely. If you wait long enough, your friends will retire/kids will move out and they will have time for you again.

This doesn't even include the elderly people with no kids that end up alone in a nursing home one day.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by yoyohello13 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:07AM (#42777084)

What about the elderly people with kids that end up alone in nursing homes?

I know a few people in the 50s and 60s with no kids and they are perfectly nice and happy. I also know parents who are real shit bags. Let’s stop this false narrative that people without kids are miserable or selfish or evil in some way. We are all just people, kids or no.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by tsunamifury on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:35PM (#42776269)

I mean yea did that till I got bored at 37/38 and had kids

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by toomuchtodo on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:36PM (#42776293)

Over half of US households (58.4%) contain no kids, 17.9% are married parents raising kids, 7.4% are single parents.

Some have them, many are not.

https://www.voronoiapp.com/demographics/Over-Half-of-Househo...

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