If it continues that way, things will get worse.
There’s not much that can be done about it now
Of course, there are things that can be done: ban abortion, make it easier to raise big families, and severely restrict immigration, just to name 3.
“Of course, there are things that can be done: ban abortion, make it easier to raise big families, and severely restrict immigration, just to name 3.”
Ban birth control too (LOL). In Japan, they’ll need something like 8 kids from every woman now, just to have a population in 2050 that matches today (i.e., there are VERY FEW women of child-bearing age in existence now). That’s what I was getting at.
But, yes, there are still things that can be done. But they are drastic. First, we either have to make women barefoot and pregnant again - or we have to accept the FACT that children are, to many women, simply another career option. If we choose to accept that, we have to pay women (or really couples) LOTS OF MONEY to have multiple kids, as in $5,000 per year for the second kid, $10,000 per year for the third kid, and $15,000 per year for additional kids. Then we have to, somehow, make sure that we don’t just send all of that money to minority cultures that would have had boatloads of kids anyway. Not easy to do, at all - that’s why I worry so much.