People are more interested in taking “selfies” these days than they are of raising children.
gov’t as surrogate husband doesn’t work fertility-wise.
They both have very strange porn.
Secularism kills birth rates. Even among practising Christians, the number of children drops as they adopt materialism.
LOL, China and Japan not accepting refugees? Japan prefers Robots? Now that’s a Liberal’s Nightmare if there ever was one. Just goes to show you can’t dictate a culture to some countries. They know what works for them, and what goes here isn’t necessarily what they view is proper for their own. Many countries don’t wish to give up their sovereignty or culture, that’s why we will never become one world.
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Because raising children has become an expense rather than an investment.
Socialism has that effect. The Soviet Union had a declining birth rate, too.
If immigrant birth rates and illegal alien birthrates were subtracted from general American population birth rates, I am not sure that we wouldn’t have the same birth rate as Japanese and Germans.
Birth Control of some kind.
They lost a war to the US?
Don’t forget about Italy’s low birth rate. Maybe it has something to do with being the Axis powers.
Ugly chicks that you don't want to spend time with?
japan I blame the depression(s) since 1990 or so. Europe & the US I blame leftism, feminism, secularism & mass influx of cheap workers.
There is something strange in both Japan and Germany. It is an intensity or personality, uncompromising Self-righteousness, an odd cultural isolation, and fear of other cultures.
I’m not sure if it was because of their losing WWII or what may have lead them into to war.
There is also an outter disconnect from the war. It is as if they outwardly make excuses for the war, but on the inside feel a cultural guilt.
“Why have birth rates plummeted in both Germany & Japan?”
Ugly women? Gay men?
The children will come, along with Sharia.
If socialism will take care of you in your old age, who needs kids to care for you? If you don’t believe inGod or an afterlife, then why plan for your earthly future? Just live it up now,
Mark Steyn covered this extremely well in “America, Alone.”
With Germany it’s an easy answer. Decades of being subjected to round-the-clock WORLD media hammering on about “World War II, Hitler, Himmler, Nazi’s” have made a generation of Germans HATE themselves, heck half of German’s can’t even say they’re proud to be German, in case the word “Nationalism” is uttered somewhere in the WORLD media.
When Helmut Kohl was Chancellor there began the thinking in Germany it was “time to move on”, but the WORLD media WON’T let them move on.
So now the WORLD media can be happy, they succeeded in making a generation of German’s self-loathing and this is the result, Germany is dying, 1 child per family isn’t enough, in 80 years they’ll be NO German’s, an ENTIRE country and all it’s rich history, culture, inventions that it GAVE to the WORLD for Centuries will have been flushed down the toilet.
It’s criminal that they weren’t allowed to move on, if they had of we wouldn’t be in this situation with them.
It’s nothing to do with lack of Christianity, 71% of Germans identify as Christian.
They’ve tried everything to get them to have more children, free-childcare, flexible working hours, cheap kindergarten rates, everything but NOTHING can erase the WORLD media’s hit-job on that nations people, forcing them to hate themselves at all time....”oh heck we better not have another child, could grow up to be the new Hitler or the new Himmler!”
This is why they’ve opening the doors to the whole of the Middle East also, yeah some to be given jobs, but most to claim welfare, because if Germany doesn’t take everyone they might get called Nazi’s all over again.
Hence Merkel’s comment “it’s our moral obligation to take in people, especially in light of our history”
“ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF OUR HISTORY” meaning Nazi Nazi Hitler Hitler Himmler Himmler.
Instead of being able to say FU WORLD media, German HISTORY STARTED centures before 1933.
Heck it makes me furious, I love the Germans.
With Japan I have no idea, but with Germany it’s totally easy to answer.
The Far Left in Germany, Communists have been rubbing their hands recently saying “the Nazi’s aren’t good at having children, German’s are dying and there’s not enough young German’s to replace them, which is good.”
So the Far Left label ALL German’s who aren’t Far Left as Nazi’s and they rejoice that Germany will be dead in 80 years....only the Far Left will make up the 5% the other 95% will be Islamic.
It’s called Genocide btw, the purposeful killing off of an entire race or COMMUNITY of people. Genocide can be done quickly or it can be gradually done by purposefully putting into place a situation where that community of people stop having children or have less than 3 children per family, either way it achieves the same objective, death of that community.
And the world will greatly miss the German’s when they are no more.
Of course the whole planet will probably have been mostly destroyed by the Radical Muslims arguing with themselves by then.