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Why Is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?

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Women who are economically well off and can afford necessities, child care, and education for their children are having families.

And no, the answer is not more immigration; we just had an election that overwhelmingly rejected that idea.

I don't think that is the case. According to pre-election polling more than 50% of voters said the economy was their biggest concern and only 25% said immigration. And the Democrats were largely touting the status quo which cleary people do not want.

Yes, the economy was issue 1A and immigration was 1B. If the Democrat power brokers would remove their head from the sand they would formulate a policy that addresses these issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/trump-immigration-bord... Recent polling found that a majority of voters favored elements of Mr. Trump’s approach.

Fifty-seven percent of voters in a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in October said they supported deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, including about 30 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents.

Slightly more than half of voters nationally, including 20 percent of Democrats, said they supported a wall on the border with Mexico, a marked increase from 2016 and 2020, when about 40 percent supported building a wall.

“There is no constituency left in this country that favors large-scale immigration,” said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow with the Migration Policy Institute.”

the answer is easy. The problem is education. In countries with high level of education and equality between man and woman, the babies are born more later in womans life, the more educated she is. The reason for this is education takes time. If the girl want to go study, she can't get pregnant. After that she decides to may be doing a master or phd .. and after that, she may be wants to persue a career - girls don't have time for babies nowadays. And they don't need it really in developed countries anymore - in contrast to poor countries, where having a lot a children corresponds to wealth and security of ageing parents.

And then, its a personal thing, too - My friend-girls are saying "why..? the world is terrible". In Japan they dont even want to have sex.

For some countries in only 10 years fertility rate has reversed direction from a high growth rate to plummeting. Look at the Turkey and Tunisia charts the author shows. I don't think education can explain this.

You're right. But still, I think it's education. For you and me, learning math and physics corresponds to education. For rural Guatemala where's no school, even learning what is sex and how children are made is education.

It started with the Internet and social web. Where you can see others having good life and other things making you think about own life.

We need more data, I can't work like this! :)

Surely microplastics play a role. They are hormone disruptors. And as we've seen, they are in practically all human sex organs now.

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