Posted on 09/07/2019 7:58:01 PM PDT by ransomnote
Nordic countries top many global comparisons of wellbeing and equality. Raising kids while both parents work full time is relatively easy today; economic uncertainty and unemployment, which may cause people to postpone having and raising kids, have retreated during recent boom years.
Yet, fertility has been falling in all Nordic countries. At the lower end, the total fertility rate fell to 1.43 percent in Finland in 2018, leaving scientists and politicians scratching their heads. The fertility rate measures the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime, and a fertility rate this low has a significant impact on the country’s future demographics.
Initially, there would be less need for daycare and schools, implying a cost-saving for taxpayers. But the shrinking working-age population together with an aging population would make the welfare state unsustainable in coming decades.
Finland and other Nordic countries are not alone in this issue. Fertility typically falls with economic development, and many developed countries have even fewer babies than Finland. Falling birth rates in high-income countries have been explained, in part, by higher education and more attractive careers for women, who continue to be expected to do the majority of childcare and housework. Having to choose between jobs and motherhood, many women will keep working or try to have their first baby at an older age, when they feel secure about their careers and personal finances. MORE AT LINK
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The more socialism and the less Christianity...
Means less babies.
Is this a trick question?
Warnings on this situation by Mark Steyn ages ago.
When the courts are stacked against men, when marriage offers nothing but slavery and misery for all but the top men in money and looks, when the women have been raised to SJW harpies, and when men are told they’re evil from the time they are children...some things are going to go wrong.
Women are the gatekeepers to sex. But take note, men are the gatekeepers to marriage, and the gate is staying closed.
These SJW types are going to grow old and die alone, unremembered. It is their greatest natural fear and it’s going to come true. When they finally realize they need to “settle” the men they mistreated in their youth won’t want them anymore.
This will literally take down our society. Nothing I can do but watch it burn from a safe distance.
It's Saturday night on Free Republic.
Kleptocracy finally crossed a critical threshold.
Birth control and abortion and high tax rates.
Where did all the babies go? Seriously?? omg...we are doomed.
The population of the US has increased by 49 million since 2000. We have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants since 1990. We don’t have a population problem.
Idiocracy
their sperm counts are low as well as their testosterone......they don't play sports....they watch them....too dangerous for the little darlings....
but they think any normal looking young woman is not good enough for them..they want the silicone sisters..
these are the people who will rue the day they passed up on good moral lovely women who are attractive but not barbies...
without reading the article, does it ever refer to the average number of abortions women in these countries are having?
The answer would go directly to the cause of the number of live births they are having.
As an aside, is it any wonder these countries are importing Muslims like the Romans imported slaves? Which indirectly led to the eventual downfall of Rome.
The student debt is probably scaring potential parents.
“The population of the US has increased by 49 million since 2000. We have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants since 1990. We don’t have a population problem.”
We have a conquest by immigration problem.
THe problem:
1. Islam
2. College
3. Welfare
4. Feminism
5. Secularism
Are you kidding me? Is this a trick question?
The Pill has prevented most pregnancies. Those babies who were conceived have been murdered at an astounding rate for the past 50+ years.
That's where all the babies went, especially those with "white privilege".
ABORTION.
Yeah, it’s bleak but i don’t know what alternative we have. Hopefully western civilization can be rebuilt from the ashes of our gender politics in places like Poland or Hungary with American refugees.
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