Posted on 06/13/2025 10:14:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new survey by the UN Population Fund shows that the most common reasons people name for not having more children are financial in nature.
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, among 14 countries surveyed, respondents named financial limitations or job instability as the most common reasons to have fewer children than they desired in all.
Commonly, financial reasons, also including housing and childcare costs, made up the top 2 or even top 3 of the issues most often cited for lower fertility, for example in India, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco, Hungary and Germany.
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In South Korea, the country with the lowest fertility rate in the world, many respondents agreed that the cost of childrearing was prohibitive.
In developing countries, common and mostly financial reasons for limiting family size were shared among a large number of respondents, while in developed countries, these barriers were perceived as somewhat lower but still affecting many.
In Sweden, only 19 percent named financial limitations - still the most common answer. This was followed by lack of a suitable partners and infertility/problems conceiving.
Lack of a partners or the partner wanting fewer children was more commonly found among the top 3 reasons to have fewer children in the Western world, even though it was also the third-most cited issue in South Africa. Brazil's top 3 reasons was concern about the social and political situation in the future, while in Morocco, this rank was occupied by chronic health conditions or poor health in general.
Agree: posterity, with eternal souls, is wealth and much more!
Wow...you can read peoples minds
Having a family creates wealth?
You seem to be in a fantasy dream state or possibly on drugs. In American nowadays it cost a fortune to get married, buy health insurance, have babies, purchase mortgages, homes, cars, sky high fuel and food prices, on and on. This is why so many young folk nowadays don’t even bother getting married. Most can barely afford to pay rent at crappy rundown apartment. Get real.
Lalalala Fantasyland
The underclass all receive SNAP for food, EBT for expenses, Section 8 for housing, and Medicaid for medical needs (and I'm sure there's a whole slew of other government gibmees that we don't even know about, but they all do).
Kids to them cost practically nothing. It's dysgenics in action. The productive class can't afford to reproduce. The bottom rungs have litters of children.
Once upon a time when I fresh out of grad school I mentioned I had children and the response was,”Why not just have pets?
Yes, we have those too. Apples and oranges.
Yes, we have those too. Apples and oranges.
How much did I have to pay for yet another duuuuh survey?
God provides!
bttt
Yep, you’re in a dream state. Nice fantasy though.
Thanks for posting the obvious. Some have difficultly connecting the dots.
they actually get a raise each time they pop out a new kid ...
< smirk>
Snort!
Good point.
Learn what wealth is.
Wealth doesn’t mean government creating it for you. Government has never created anything.
Wealth is in productivity. Having more kids leads to generational wealth.
The only people who want to discourage people from having kids are the anti-American leftists and the deep state cabal.
Families are what made our country great. This is why the low IQ communists have targeted families. They don’t see what’s coming for them.
No, you’re off track.
Everyone interprets behavior and thinking beyond the face value of a person’s words.
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