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No, the data I saw specifically distinguished between people who think they don’t need kids and people who can’t afford them or think it’s too hard to raise them because they don’t have enough support from the government. “I don’t like kids” was the most common response (~30% overall).
On top of that, notice that even people who do like kids and start family usually have only 1-2 kids. If you fix all the housing and childcare issues, people that will decide to have kids will still have only 1 or 2. Big families are gone and not coming back. Having 4-5 kids is seen as kind of weird now. Without very big families you will never compensate for the 30% of people who simply don’t like kids.
So yes, countries are deciding now between smaller populations or migration. Either way it doesn’t look good for the future. I just hope it will collapse after I die and I’m sure as hell not having kids to postpone it a little big.
No, the data I saw specifically distinguished between people who think they don’t need kids and people who can’t afford them or think it’s too hard to raise them because they don’t have enough support from the government. “I don’t like kids” was the most common response (~30% overall).
On top of that, notice that even people who do like kids and start family usually have only 1-2 kids. If you fix all the housing and childcare issues, people that will decide to have kids will still have only 1 or 2. Big families are gone and not coming back. Having 4-5 kids is seen as kind of weird now. Without very big families you will never compensate for the 30% of people who simply don’t like kids.
So yes, countries are deciding now between smaller populations or migration. Either way it doesn’t look good for the future. I just hope it will collapse after I die and I’m sure as hell not having kids to postpone it a little big.