- Decreased fertility ( Obesity maybe? )
- Cost of housing.
- Children in the west are now overprotected little dictators and parents are no longer allowed to be humans with their own needs.
Side rant:
I just saw a linkedin post with a woman being flamed for choosing not not attend childs first day of school because she had an important work event to attend to.
Father attended, not mother. Mother thus declared incompetent child abuser.
Seing what my poor younger collegues go through today I would absolutely abstain from having any.
Living on the edge of financial ruin and sleep depravation to pay half my income for a child that can threaten to call the social sevices on you for forcing them to bicycle to school instead of being driven by car is an easy choice not to make.
Oddly specific story is a danish one from a collegue. They have a kids emergency phone or something in Denmark that is supposed to be used for abused children to alarm authorities of violence etc. Said collegue was reported, by their 11 year old, for failing to drive the kid to school and giving them bicycles instead. To add insult to injury, its an expensive private school they attend and denmark is a bicycle country.
The authorities of course just dismissed the complaint and nothing ever happened. Kid had to bicycle.
They have to investigate according to law though. And file a report.
Sorry long rant. I feel genuinly sorry for young people trying to start a family.
Bringing a child to the western world demands double phds in child psychiatry and Kardashian money.