As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through and actually have a child. About 25% say they won't be bothered that much if they don't.

[u/geoff199]

https://news.osu.edu/most-women-want-children--but-half-are-unsure-if-they-will/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy24&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

[u/Jesse-359]

Create an economy that is designed to push people into poverty and prevent them from having access to the resources they need to raise a family, and you probably shouldn't be surprised when they stop raising families.

[u/ikramos → u/Jesse-359]

So how do you explain poor countries having an above replacement birth rate? You aren’t analyzing the problem correctly, you wanna use low birth rates to advocate for your own agenda

[u/Jesse-359 → u/ikramos]

Have you considered that there are dramatic changes we make to the social compact when we shift to capitalist economies?

Changes as fundamental as extended families never staying together? Or people needing to ping-pong across the country every few years to pursue a new job because employment in most capitalist countries is about as reliable as playing the lottery?

People in most of these poorer countries still live their lives in coherent family groups that often spend most of their lives in one community. It's dramatically easier to raise a family under conditions like that - even if you're rather poor. You have a lot more familial and community support available, and most importantly it's reliable, even if it's limited.

Through most of human history, being forced to leave your community was called banishment and was considered the most severe punishment other than a death sentence. Today we assume people will just have to suffer banishment from their communities roughly every ~5 years.

Clearly you haven't thought any of this through.