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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 84 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

I do think that the Nordic countries show pretty well that even if you treat your population well and put quite a lot of effort into helping the population with child rearing, it seems like women just don't want to have many children in modern society, even before everything became doom-and-gloom.

Maybe that's just how it goes when you let people decide for themselves. Or maybe modern, capitalistic society is just not conducive to childrearing, and no amount of state support for young families, kindergartens etc. is going to change that.

[–] LemmingOnTheEdge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone wants to speculate as to why women don't want to have children. I'm not an expert, but hear me out. What if we just ask them? Not just why, but if. Do we actually know that they don't want to, or are there other factors we haven't considered preventing them from having children.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Heretic! If we allow them to have their own opinions (on childbearing no less!), then what's next? Giving them the right to vote?!?

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