Based on my limited research, it appears that declining birthrates track almost perfectly with the rise of feminism. Backwards and oppressive third world countries seem to have no trouble reproducing, but no one is having babies in regions where women have been “liberated” from the roles of mother and wife.
Its also associated entirely with the rise of "comfort" levels.
People used to just pop kids out and fuck it, just make it work. They'd live with 5 kids despite barely affording to live with none. Kids would do something to help ends meet and sacrifices were abound.
Now people need a certain level of security and comfort before they consider kids and then only the amount they are certain they can handle. Its one reason why poorer people have more kids, because their level of comfort is so low that another kid won't make it any worse.
A lot of this is easily correlated with feminism, such as their demands to be let into work making the family wealth level plummet and need for external help in raising children skyrocket.
So even if women were worth something and cared about starting families, 1st world nations would still struggle to some extent. Look at Japan which has less feminism related problems (not zero, but not the same level as America/Europe) but still can't breed because of their work/money concerns.
Things are a lot more expensive now though, relatively speaking. I think that needs to be a consideration. You could easily feed three kids and pay a mortgage off of one income thirty years ago.
Its not wrong to take consideration. Its probably smart even. But like most things in life, people take "proper prep and consideration" as an excuse to never actually act.
Wherein before BC and other factors, people just dealt with their 5+ pop outs. And you'd be surprised at what you can make work when you don't have any other options.
Even the comparison to how cheap things were years ago are at least partially people making excuses so they never have to try. I'm raising 2 (soon 3) kids in one of the most expensive states in a house we just bought with two mid-level incomes. Something that should be impossible if you listened to most people talking about how it "used to be."
Based on my limited research, it appears that declining birthrates track almost perfectly with the rise of feminism. Backwards and oppressive third world countries seem to have no trouble reproducing, but no one is having babies in regions where women have been “liberated” from the roles of mother and wife.
“Feminism = death cult” confirmed.
Its also associated entirely with the rise of "comfort" levels.
People used to just pop kids out and fuck it, just make it work. They'd live with 5 kids despite barely affording to live with none. Kids would do something to help ends meet and sacrifices were abound.
Now people need a certain level of security and comfort before they consider kids and then only the amount they are certain they can handle. Its one reason why poorer people have more kids, because their level of comfort is so low that another kid won't make it any worse.
A lot of this is easily correlated with feminism, such as their demands to be let into work making the family wealth level plummet and need for external help in raising children skyrocket.
So even if women were worth something and cared about starting families, 1st world nations would still struggle to some extent. Look at Japan which has less feminism related problems (not zero, but not the same level as America/Europe) but still can't breed because of their work/money concerns.
Things are a lot more expensive now though, relatively speaking. I think that needs to be a consideration. You could easily feed three kids and pay a mortgage off of one income thirty years ago.
Its not wrong to take consideration. Its probably smart even. But like most things in life, people take "proper prep and consideration" as an excuse to never actually act.
Wherein before BC and other factors, people just dealt with their 5+ pop outs. And you'd be surprised at what you can make work when you don't have any other options.
Even the comparison to how cheap things were years ago are at least partially people making excuses so they never have to try. I'm raising 2 (soon 3) kids in one of the most expensive states in a house we just bought with two mid-level incomes. Something that should be impossible if you listened to most people talking about how it "used to be."