Posted on 02/24/2023 5:33:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
KYIV, Ukraine — They never wanted children. Yuliia Oleksienko says she and her husband Oleksandr made that decision long before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
"We talked about it many times," says 31-year-old Oleksienko, "and we always saw ourselves as being child-free in our future."
The war has only cemented that decision, with security, economics and political stability all playing a factor. "You should give birth when you can provide your child with everything they need," Oleksienko says. And she wonders, how can you do that right now in Ukraine?
Important personal decisions like this across the country have contributed to a long-running trend. Since the early 1990s, Ukrainians have been having fewer and fewer children. Add to that high rates of emigration and mortality — including untold war casualties — and it's leading to dramatic population decline. Even before last year's invasion, the United Nations predicted Ukraine would lose a fifth of its population by 2050.
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“They never wanted children. Yuliia Oleksienko says she and her husband Oleksandr made that decision long before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.”
Wow. Maybe that country really does belong in NATO and the EU.
In a war of attrition, the Ukrainian Army will run out of soldiers before the Russians.
Parenting is for the young.
Excuses for putting off parenting is for the selfish.
the Russian rapists will solve that problem.
/sssss
Sorry.
Only is the stupidity of the Russian general staff somehow ends.
Long before the war Ukraine killed almost 100 percent of their downs syndrome children.
Bring the young widows here. We’ll put a stop to that $hit.
It wouldn't surprise me. But I would assume the Russians did the same?
And just like that, NPR thinks fewer births is “dangerous.”
Only because Ukraine will get depleted of their troops.
After lecturing us about overpopulation for 50 years
HIS version of the baby boomer is cooking
“But I would assume the Russians did the same?”
Ukraine’s government is infested with Azovs (Nazis), so no surprise that they kill off ‘non-productive’ people, but what makes you think Russia would do the same?
That is a complete lie and you know it. I know because I was supporting children with all manner of birth defects.
Russia has a much higher abortion rate than Ukraine and other European countries.
Ukraine has been shrinking for 30 years. This war pushed it over a demographic cliff. This manufactured nation will cease to exist
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