No, birth rates are down because of feminism. You can’t empower women to spend 75% of their fertility window not having children and then expect birth rates not to collapse.
“Muh economy” is pure cope; the poorest people have the most children, and virtually all of our ancestors were poorer than any of us are now.
Poor people have children as economic gains, because it usually means more welfare and extra working hands depending on what demographic of poor. They are happily willing to put 3+ to a room in a shack, and jam a bottle of regular ass milk into a newborn.
Its the people above poor, the lower middle class, where the economic issue arises, because it does look prohibitively expensive from the outside without the crutch of welfare and taking the full burden of it on two full time working parents alone while following "the rules" of paying for things like formula and cosleeping.
Feminism plays a huge part in why that happens to be the case, but the monetary angle is what most people are looking at when they consciously decide against having a 3rd/4th/so on to up the rates.
No, birth rates are down because of feminism. You can’t empower women to spend 75% of their fertility window not having children and then expect birth rates not to collapse.
“Muh economy” is pure cope; the poorest people have the most children, and virtually all of our ancestors were poorer than any of us are now.
World food programme is a massive flop, instead of feeding people they have been breeding people. But that's probably by design.
Poor people have children as economic gains, because it usually means more welfare and extra working hands depending on what demographic of poor. They are happily willing to put 3+ to a room in a shack, and jam a bottle of regular ass milk into a newborn.
Its the people above poor, the lower middle class, where the economic issue arises, because it does look prohibitively expensive from the outside without the crutch of welfare and taking the full burden of it on two full time working parents alone while following "the rules" of paying for things like formula and cosleeping.
Feminism plays a huge part in why that happens to be the case, but the monetary angle is what most people are looking at when they consciously decide against having a 3rd/4th/so on to up the rates.
Why can't you just say what it is?
The reproductive have more kids to profit off leeching off the superior productive people who work and pay taxes.
Depression-era families still had proper Christian values, not (((media))) and dating apps telling women to kill their babies and be whores.
The answer can be both.