Posted on 12/06/2022 3:45:31 PM PST by Rummyfan
The season of baby fairs is here once again in South Korea. Busy, noisy affairs held in cavernous conference halls where hundreds of vendors try to sell expectant parents everything they could possibly desire for their new bundle of joy – and plenty of other things they never knew they needed.
But this is a shrinking business, and the customer base is dwindling.
South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79.
That is far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population and low even compared to other developed countries where the rate is falling, such as the United States (1.6) and Japan – which at 1.3 reported its own lowest rate on record.
And it spells trouble for a country with an aging population that faces a looming shortage of workers to support its pension system.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The only solution is to import 10s of millions of 3rd worlders into South Korea. Sure, it will result in a great replacement of the South Korean people, and lots of crime and erasure of their culture, but all that matter is having a growing population for the south korean corporations and a new pool of voters for their politicians. Just give up your culture and your children’s future and if you object then you are a racist bigot!
We teach young women that career is the ultimate fulfillment and men exist to oppress them and then act surprised when they believe it.
All with the best of intentions, of course.
Once a society has chosen socialism, it is very nearly impossible to turn it around.
Luckily Hausfrau Merkel let in millions of military age moslem males so their problem isn't quite the same.
Hungary seems to be having some success with their efforts to have native Hungarians have more children.
“Montesquieu’s Warning About Our Childlessness”
I’d bet nobody but me and you read the entire essay.
It is very good.
Send in the Africans?
The US has 94 people per square mile.
South Korea has 1,366 people per square mile.
Maybe it’s too crowded to have sex.
Wow, abortion has taken the lives of 60 million children in the US alone since 1973. Suppose that has something to do with it?
Family has to be the focus going forward. Husband, wife, and many children. Many things have to change in the western system to facilitate this.
There are various interrelated reasons. Among these are, how birth control is very effective and available. Women don’t want their lives to revolve around children and family. Stigmas against sex outside marriage are gone,. Many people stress about how they will ever be able to afford to buy a house and cost associated with raising children. Some people enter adulthood and just want to have fun and don’t even want to think about the Next Generation. Women who are building their careers often delay having children, so that even if they would like a family, they end up having fewer children in their fertile lifetime than they would have otherwise.
Just in general I think cultures and people’s attitudes about marriage and family and children have really changed. In birth control has made it all possible for people to live out their desires in this area of life.
Agreed, what the heck is wrong with Korean men?>
Two couples working to make ends meet leaves little time for children. Abortion and birth control are leading developed countries to depopulate themselves. The solution is one no one wants to hear; outlaw abort and disallow birth control until women have at least two children.
Biden is allowing uncontrolled immigration here, too.
Yep. We are not that much better off. We will be at 1.2 by 2030.
Japan lost over 4 million people in it’s population in 2022.
Iran currently has the highest population collapse of any nation in recorded history.
Russia, Italy, France, Lebanon, and even China are sharply dropping.
It’s all over the world.
This has been trending in Western Europe and parts of the US since late in the 19th Century. Once the trend begins no country has succeeded in reversing it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.