Why do birth rates decrease gradually worldwide?

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İs it because life is getting Harder and more unaffordable Day by day

HighValue · Accepted Answer

People are more selfish now and wouldrather have a more expensivecar to show off than have a normalone and a family. More people are concerned with sexual pleasure and trying to impress others with things they buy. Also, more men have realized they don't want a bad partner that will divorce and steal from them and use the kids as a weapon against them in court to get even more money. On top of all of that, housing costs have greatly increased, interest rates are very high, further increasing the payments (Biden did that), and there is an uncertain future for many people so they don't want to risk having more responsibilities.

So there are numerous reasons combined why not as many people are having kids now.

dolemite58 · Accepted Answer

The outlook of the future for most people isn’t exactly optimistic now a days

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

We do not want the world to be over populated cause it leads to environment damage, government mismanagement, and limitation of resources to feed and house the world's people. With improvements in technology, we are less reliant on the younger generation to care for our older population so we are less dependent on over population to maintain the basic needs of our parents or grand parents or great grand parents.

Moirine · Accepted Answer

The world is terrible, inflation is sky rocketing and unemployment rate is high. I love kids but I don't like the idea of bringing children into the world I can't afford yet.

Apple1996 · Answer

Because people don't want the responsibility of raising kids.

nightdrot · Answer

Actually I was unable to vote and a simple Yes/No answer will not work very well. It is simply too lacking in nuance.

For what it is worth, it is the normal pattern that as an economy industrializes its' birthrates tend - usually after a brief surge - to decline. This being because the cost of educating and raising a child will increase while the economic need for more children to "work the fields," as it were, declines.

Raising a child to function in an industrializing - and now post-industrial, which is to say service/tech - economy is an expensive undertaking. It is one thing to teach a growing child how to fish or grow corn, quite another to manufacture widgets, so to speak. So parents will still have children - it being a normal human instinct to procreate - but will have fewer.

Moreover, unlike in more primitive economies, in an industrialized/post-industrial economy, after the child is educated, he generally moves out on his/her own. This of course being what parents want - they want their children to be independent - but this reduces the return on the investment, so to speak.

By contrast, in a rural/agricultural economy, the child stayed on the farm. They helped parents with chores and such and thus were a net positive to the domestic economy. Plus, as such an economy did not require higher education, the costs of raising a child were proportionately smaller. (Also, higher infant mortality rates in more primitive economies tends to result in the birth of more children since parents will - instinctively - have more children to offset the potential loss of earlier children.)

Then throw in to all of this that as the economy develops, so will change the culture. Thus attitudes toward families, tradition and child rearing will change - and to some extent become less receptive to - the idea of having children and raising large families. Culture and economics reinforce each other and shifting demographic patterns follow.

It is no accident, to borrow a line, that Europe and Japan - the first countries to industrialize and the least receptive to immigration - have the oldest populations. (In demographic terms, Japan and Italy have the oldest and second oldest populations, respectively, on Earth.) The economic and demographic factors - and in the case of Japan the staunch resistance to immigration as a homogeneous and somewhat insular island nation has reinforced the demographic realities.

The USA's population is also aging and birthrates declining, but this has been offset by its openness to immigration from more economically primitive societies. In those societies, the higher birthrates are offset by wars, economic shortage and limited health facilities. Suffice to say, people from such countries do not change their fertility when they come to a safer society - at least not initially - and this has helped the USA to have a somewhat higher birthrate by the standards of the industrialized world.

(Religion too, also plays a part as it tends, for a variety of reasons, to be a stronger cultural force in the USA than in much of the rest of the Western world. Though as religious observance has declined in the USA, so too has the birthrate.)

Bottom line, declining birthrates and aging populations are pretty much the demographic norm as economies modernize. To be sure, there are related cultural and sociological factors at work, too. However, these cannot be neatly separated from the other demographic and economic forces at play.

MisterWack · Answer

Yes AND no

I believe cost of living going higher and higher in developed parts of the world can be a contributing factor however the biggest factor is, there is just too many people and people waste a lot of resources which promotes pollution, land waste ending up in oceans & clean water, litter leading to animal deaths, climate change drastically increasing from giant factory farms, amusement parks / cruise ships, etc.

There is a big burden on overpopulation and I think a lot of people don’t want kids as a factor. Another take to consider is, we have orphaned children alone without parents so people could take the alternative and raise a child as their own instead of leaving them without a home perhaps (smaller reason, you get the point)

DarkLegacy · Answer

It is certainly because of the cost of living but also with regards to the future we have global warming and all it's impacts, not least the overpopulation crisis with less land and less land being habitable. Technology is also leading tot his as people socialize less, this is particularly apparent in Japan where nearly half of all adult men are virgins due to technology.

Feminism is also playing it;s part by turning man and against woman and woman against man. All you have to do is look at the way women are towards men, us trying it on with them is being criminalized. We are demonized for paying a woman a compliment, looking at her or standing to close to her.

Anonymous · Answer

Life has never been safer or easier in fact. Its just harder for those young enough to have kids to get what their culture expects them to have before having kids. A stable support system for food and shelter.

But even their life is vastly better and more secure than the lives of people just 100 years ago, let alone 500 years ago where people barely earned enough money to eat.

Our real problem is unrealistic standards of spoiled brats raised by Hollywood along with other bad ideas sold by the same.

HelpfulWoman · Answer

cost of living rising. also the advances in medical technology so less kids are needed since most will make it to adulthood.

RasmusAiken · Answer

Hope is the conviction that things will improve. Right now hope is in decline and people don't wish to bring a child into a world with waning hope.

Guanfei · Answer

It doesn't. Only in western and Asian countries.
There's a propaganda to tell us we shouldn't make kids, because they're annoying, expensive, loud, ecologically bad...
And on the other hand, we bring in thousands of immigrants from outside.
Guess the idea behind it.

In_Trance · Answer

Have you seen the shitshow of a planet we live on?  Why would anyone want to bring children into this world?

AviatorTom · Answer

Social biologists would say that feminism and women's liberation are a significant contributor to a global decrease in birth rates.

In the past, women's main role was to have and raise children, and most women gladly did that.

Now, a significant number of women who, in the past would have had babies, have a career in work instead. This leads to lower birth rates.

molonski2 · Answer

Education.. is greatly improved..

Prior birth rate was tied to your future and who would support you. Thailand where I am is a great example , there is basically ZERO females having 4 children , or the like , many women in their 40s childless , they realise , that these children cannot act as a form of superannuation as it used to be in Asia , good example.

NamerOfStars · Answer

Just the opposite- as nations get richer, life gets EASIER, not harder. Consequently, more of your children survive to adulthood, and you need fewer to help work the farm, since automation powers many jobs.

As an individual, behaviors are hard to predict; society-wide, they're quite easy. When the demand goes down, production of supply does, too. Children are no exception.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Expense. If one is rich, he or she can afford it. If poor and in a nation that has a welfare state, the taxpayers foot the bills. Everyone else is in a tough spot.

Anonymous · Answer

That's why we plan on waiting several more years. We're way busy and we feel like we need to save more.

_piotr · Answer

Economy has an impact. But the problem is wokeness - feminists believe a bear is better than a man and having a child is selfish and a burden. Leftist propaganda and laws discourage white people growth, because they think white people are evil. Climate activists think that big population is bad for environment.

Jersey2 · Answer

Feminism. Women want to work and not raise a family. My hope is that the women who want to have families pass on that trait and Darwin whittles out the Feminists like any other bad traits.

jahaims · Answer

Cultural and social norms change. In the west it became more common for females to take on masculine roles. The one child policy in China affected their population. Plenty of African and Middle Eastern countries have growing populations still.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

It's exactly the reason. Having children feels like more of a luxury especially if you have more than one.

Everything from housing, food has significantly risin up and continues to rise while wages don't keep pace with higher cost of living and bringing children into this world just to suffer needlessly isn't fair nor right in my opinion.

FreyaRed · Answer

No, it's not caused by life quality. Humans had growing population under much worse conditions than today.

Nature heals itself.

and it's a good thing. Last 150 years has been disastrous for our environment, societies and spirit.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Earth is no longer a safe, promising world to be born into and grow up in.

Brittanyroseee · Answer

INFLATION HELLO? Plus they are a huge ass commitment and responsibility hell nah😭

At3mis24 · Answer

Because of this: It's better to adopt!

sheikalana · Answer

Life used to be so much harder in the 50's and 60's and even way before that and that didn't stop people from having kids and families. Marriages are just not as important for most people nowadays.

genericname85 · Answer

i would say cause procreation isn't necessary for most people anymore. cause most people can have other means of preparing for their retirement. in countries like niger, where that's not the case, you see women have 6 kids on average.

Anonymous · Answer

There have been efforts to reduce birth rates worldwide for decades. That’s one reason. It hasn’t ever necessarily been “affordable” to have kids but it is much more difficult than it has been in recent years.

JacobJordan · Answer

Birth rates always decrease leading up to large world conflicts. They skyrocket after those conflicts and then decline again before the cycle starts anew

slatyb · Answer

It's because women have access to contraception and want to plan their lives.

Unit1 · Answer

Maybe i should take a photo of my mattress on the floor and my broken armchair and post it as a response. I'm a software engineer.

Anonymous · Answer

A species can tell when its environment is not suitable anymore. Our planet is not suitable for our species anymore. Why would we bring kids into this?

4ngelic · Answer

that's part of why but there's a couple other reasons

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Its because kids are a hassle and adults today want to focus on their dreams.

exitseven · Answer

only people on welfare can afford to have kids.

RedInnocent69 · Answer

It’s because life is getting better. Girls are more educated and independent. Agriculture is industrialized and more efficient. Less need for large families to support subsistence farming.

Anonymous · Answer

Because people are idiots and shouldn’t reproduce anyway.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Kids are expensive.

Anonymous · Answer

Because people have realized overpopulation is a serious issue

Anonymous · Answer

I suspect it has less to do with affordability and more to do with too little fucking!

pinconon · Answer

materialism

whistlingwh0res · Answer

Infestation

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