India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world

Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by boelboel on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:06PM (#48415361)

There's some evidence that mobile phone access is one of the biggest drivers in this. This talks about teen fertility but I'd imagine it's similar in other age categories as well.

https://homepages.uc.edu/~moscoshn/Personal_webpage/papers/S...

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by FeteCommuniste on Friday June 05, 2026 @02:43PM (#48416541)

Interesting. Once you have a cellphone to amuse yourself, perpetuating the species is just too much bother?

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by boelboel on Friday June 05, 2026 @02:52PM (#48416655)

Phone + PC/TV probably takes an hour or two of people their day on average. If they didn't have access to it I assume they'd be meeting up with other people out of boredom and that'd lead to sex, doesn't seem too strange.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by wtetzner on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:28PM (#48417061)

I suspect on average it's much higher than an hour or two.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by testing22321 on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:23PM (#48430854)

The average American watches 4 to 4.5 hours of TV per day. [1]

Half of people watch more.

[1] https://adwave.com/resources/average-daily-tv-viewing-time

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by laughing_man on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:14PM (#48416917)

Or you spend all your time on your phone and can't understand why you're just not getting ahead in life.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by trumpdong on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:01PM (#48419461)

Maybe people don't meet in person any more because they call each other = less teen pregnancy instincts.

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