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2025-07-06 14:23:43

wazoox@diasp.eu

Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA | UN News

Titled The real fertility crisis: The pursuit of reproductive agency in a changing world, the report argues that what’s really under threat is people’s ability to choose freely when – and whether – to have children.

So not being able to afford a home, and food, being jobless, hampers people's ability to have children. Who could have guess.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164176

2025-07-06 15:31:17

Joyce Donahue

joyce_donahue@diasporasocial.net

Yep. That Trump bonus ($1000) per child isn't going to solve the problem.

2025-07-06 20:04:58

Jarasy

jarasy@diasporasocial.net

Not quite as simple as that. With falling birth rate you have an aging population. More and more people who need to be supported by fewer and fewer people in their productive years. China and Japan found themselves in big trouble.

On the other hand yes, mass starvation and widespread disease will help to shrink the population.

There are population models for the earth that predict a leveling off and decline to a stable, sustainable point for various reasons I never quite absorbed.

It's complicated but one thing that has already been demonstrated in practical fashion is that you don't find a solution through falling birth rates alone.

2025-07-07 08:15:28

Joyce Donahue

joyce_donahue@diasporasocial.net

The people who are complaining most about this are really saying "Birth rates among white people are falling, we must raise them." In the US, the demographic of women having babies is highest among Hispanics.