What caused that? I think for the most part, it has been government policy of taxing the middle class to subsidize the lower class.
The only people who can afford to have big families are single women on welfare. The government will pay for EVERYTHING - by taxing the middle class to death.
“At the end of this mandate, the government will be measured on the number of newborns more than on its public debt,” he declared.”
Couples who feel financially stressed, who do not have reliable employment, will not have children.
Lots of causes to the lowered fertility rate; universal social security means we don’t have to rely on children to take care of us, industrialization means most of us live in more expensive urban settings, females are pursuing careers rather than families, our own culture mocks family values, progressive pessimism turns people away from childbearing out of fear (The world will end soon), sexuality means nothing anymore, and finally most of us live self centered lives. The average fermale needs to give birth to 2.1 children in order for a population to sustain itself. If you go lower than that a population will crash sooner than you think.
you can’t have much of a family if mama is working in the factory 12 hours a day just like daddy
Males who ditch their women and kids in war zones and/or hellholes will not make great citizens and/or fathers, Salvini....
Young Italian women have no desire to have children!
Maybe science needs to come up with a way to “hatch” babies like the Kryptonians did in the fictional Superman movies. Then raise them to a certain age so the parents, picked in some scientific way, can then raise them the rest of the way into adulthood. All so young people don’t have to be bothered to get pregnant and have babies themselves.
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On a more serious note; this dying of a society by not having enough babies is only partly true. Yes, there will be less citizens for a generation or more but that doesn’t mean it will stay that way. The worse thing to do is import some other culture and nationality to supplant the difference in baby numbers. The society will for sure be lost in one or two generations at the most. Especially if the fill-in baby makers are Muslim.
Salvini...doing the work the Church won’t do.
At this point, just raising children is no longer an option. They need to raise and train soldiers, or their children will get slaughtered.
Many couples prefer dogs to children. It will be interesting to see who takes care of them when they get old and sick.
2) Eliminate alimony.
3) Repeal the 16th, 17th, and 19th Amendments.
Racism. Racism. Be intimidated at that buzz word, you racist, you./s
The importance of population growth to national survival is heavily dependant on the degree of socialism and wealth redistribution.
Socialism is a pyramid scheme in which the retirement and age related medical costs of the non-working older population must be subsidized by an ever larger working population.
As the elderly live longer and longer past retirement age, and have no incentive to defer their retirement, the young increasingly delay entry into the workforce by seeking higher and higher degrees, and have little incentive to enter the workforce early and begin saving, since retirement savings is not an issue in a socialist economy.
Because of these dynamics it takes more and more people in the work force to generate the tax revenues required to subsidize the non working population. In a socialist economy, the number of workers required to subsidize one non-worker increases with each generation. This is why the population must grow - or go bankrupt.
Without socialism and its excessive wealth redistribution, each citizen would need to save for his own retirement and elderly care, and decisions affecting his ability to save, such as age of entry into the workforce and age of retirement, would be individual economic decisions. Without socialism, a man might decide not to go for a PHD so as to enter the workforce sooner and begin saving sooner, and he might work well beyond 65, in order to save longer. Under socialism there would be no incentive to make such decisions.
Without socialism, each individual (or family unit) would be self sufficient, and population could ebb and flow naturally without dire economic consequence.
I once listened to a conservative radio host who said she and her husband didn’t kids because the modern world is a horrible place. I just think that is a terrible excus.