- death (giving birth is more dangerous than birth control or abortion)
- financial insecurity (can you get a job if you lose your co-parent?)
- hopelessness (many women don't want to bring a child into a world with existential issues like climate change)
And there are many more. Not a single one was addressed by this tweet.
Miss often than not, I see it framed as an economic problem needing more economic solutions. This article hit the nail on the head. It is also a socio-cultural problem. And social cultural solutions work far better than purely economic solutions.
the pendulum swings regardless. And clearly is picking up momentum back that direction.
Children were historically used as slaves and retirement plans. As economies become more advanced, families need less of both of those things.
So a major economic benefit of having kids is gone and women are more afraid of the risks.
Telling someone "X was worse in the past" doesn't make them suddenly stop worrying about it.
The other factors may be, and would therefore be more of a causitive factor eh?
That's not the case anymore.
that’s the actual truth, yes.
but the recent shift in decisions also has consequences, and the western world in particular is struggling with those consequences.