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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by lynx97 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:24AM (#44568794)
Having children is subsidized where I come from. To a point where getting pregnant is a strategy to secure a form of UBI for certain low-income people. I think the reasons for lowered birth rates are much more hedonistic and less related to costs.
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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by DonHopkins on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:38AM (#44569498)
Not wanting to bring children into an overpopulated polluted overheating stormy flooding jobless fascist warring world of burning bombed out cities and ICE concentration camps run by heath care and science denying oligarchs and religious zealots is hardly hedonism.
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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by amarait on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:08AM (#44569913)
That is hardly a reason. People used to starve and had tens of children. Why dont we just accept that is cultural?
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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:50AM (#44570599)
Culture meaning women having economic freedom, physical security, and access to birth control?

Women don't have "tens" of children due to culture, they have them due to not having an option. The data says they (as a global group) barely want 2 or 3 (which makes sense to those that have seen the risks and tribulations).

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Re:East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration... by Scarblac on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:05AM (#44570710)
Since then we have invented much more reliable methods of birth control and have managed to bring infant mortality way down.
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