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Encourage nuclear families, marriage with children.

With that said, there seems to be some unique circumstances in Korea as it's not what I'd call a progressive culture and they have a very low birthrate.

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Progressives already support child and marriage tax benefits (and not limiting marriage benefits to different-sex couples) as well as long parental leaves, including for adoption.

I mean, yes, but there is 108 male for 100 female at birth, what does it solve?

And do you want to force those 100 female to each marry a guy, even if they don't want to?

That's what I'm getting at with unique circumstances. And of course there is a wide spectrum between forced marriage and encouraging.

Naturally, we birth more males than females. The natural ratio seems to be 1.05 and not 1.08 like i thought. No idea why.

You know what would help encourage that? Widespread affordable home ownership and debt relief. Yet that is a problem from west to east.

Wouldn't it be the other way? If home ownership (and renting) became so expensive no one could possibly do it without multiple incomes people would be forced to find roommates.

Doesn’t seem to be the case.

> macroeconomic conditions such as soaring housing prices and intense employment pressure also come into play, forcing many people to give up trying to tie the knot

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3204140/y...

"Tying the knot" is not the same has having to find roommates. In general, one is often about supporting another as well as committing to a lifetime together. Neither of those have anything to do with finding roommates.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-driven-record-rents-m...

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