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

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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