A lot of women don’t want 2.1 kids. We need an economic model in which that’s okay.
“America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population,” worried the Economist, in one of many representative headlines I’ve spotted over recent months. “The EU faces a major demographic decline,” warned Euronews. “Japan’s latest plan to reverse declining birthrate,” teased a recent Newsweek headline. “South Korea’s low birthrate budget needs an overhaul” opined the editorial board of the Chosun Daily.
Perhaps you are wondering, as I did, why we should care about this population decline. Have studies that shown women and couples are happier if they have more children? Not to my knowledge — in fact, many show the opposite: that while children may bring tremendous joy, they also bring tremendous stress to marriages.
Plenty of researchers studying population decline have attempted to figure out what is happening to begin with. But unfortunately it turns out the answer is that we really don’t know. What we do know is that, almost without exception, when women live in places that allow them access to birth control, access to education and access to jobs, they overwhelmingly have fewer children. Even if, as in Taiwan, Russia, Italy and Greece, the government literally gives women cash money for reproduction.
their best solution is hoping that the condom breaks. Unfortunately, it sounds like this might, in fact, be exactly where we’re at.Is a world that is required to spin faster and faster or it collapses a good idea for a world?
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