This article notes that “right-wing governments, including the US and Hungary, are increasingly blaming falling fertility rates on a rejection of parenthood”, as if today’s young adults just don’t want children.
But the author suggests that actually people do want children, and one of the main reasons they’re having fewer children is because they can’t afford many children.
Thoughts?
Raising children requires hope for he future.
Of course the first post ww2 generation to see lower prospects then their parents. Will hesitate to bring children into that future.
Falling birthrates are not a problem for humanity.
They’re a problem for capitalism which can’t rely on that for nebulous “growth” figures.
But if capitalists really want a solution, then a home for two adults and two children should be affordable on one average wage, not two. Build more and make them cheaper. If you can’t do that then you don’t care about the problem enough.
I’d love kids, but the world is fucked and it wouldn’t be fair on them.
I think uncertainty of employment is a huge issue. Enact a right to employment law.
One off transfers aren’t enough, there has to be consistent income stream. The hours of the work offered under this law must be flexible.
Of course, none of that is going to happen if the Government has a neoliberal mindset.
