Posted on 10/22/2013 8:34:56 PM PDT by TexGrill
More and more Koreans are deciding to stay single or, if they marry, to have no children. Like most developments this is led by the capital, where the number of people who live alone has increased more than 10-fold over the last 30 years, while that of childless couples has grown more than four times.
The figures come from data about the 3.6 million households within city limits released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Tuesday.
Childless married couples accounted for a mere 5.51 percent or 101,135 households in 1980, but that surged to 12.8 percent or 423,229 in 2010.
Among singles the surge was even more dramatic -- from 4.49 percent or 82,477 households in 1980 to a whopping 24.39 percent or 854,606 in 2010. From the rarest kind of domestic setup, the single household has now turned into the second most common.
There is a wide gap in the views of marriage and divorce between men and women. Some 39.4 percent of women in Seoul say marriage is optional, compared to only 27.7 percent of men.
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It must be cultural sickness.
Business is brisk, there is no reason to not have family’s.
They should be thriving.
I wonder if it's feminism; IMO, nothing destroys a woman's attractiveness like swallowing that poison.
GK Chesterton said it like this: Feminism is the mode of thought which hates everything feminine.
Why have a family when you could spend that money on an iphone?
Spending too much time playing video games. Eating too much food with soy in it.
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They have 50 million people in 38000 square miles in South Korea. That is about 1300 per square mile. it wouldn’t hurt them to reduce the birth rate a little bit.
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