| ▲ | peanut-walrus a day ago | |
What my original comment said was that we have a global fertility crisis, not due to social changes (although these also play a role), but because biologically a lot of people simply can not have children any more (or it's a lot more difficult than it used to be). Responding that women's emancipation is the cause for very real global health issues was the non-sequitur here. | ||
| ▲ | peanut-walrus a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
I am well aware that this is not a mainstream view (yet), but the rate of decline in fertility in the past 20 years is not something that can be explained through social changes alone. | ||
| ▲ | lotsofpulp a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Your claim that total fertility rate being sub replacement rate mostly due to biological inability to have children is not seen in any data I have seen. All the trends correspond directly to women’s emancipation (although men also probably want fewer children). | ||