I think it's the opposite. Nowadays women well past their fertile days look great, so we all live under the impression that there is always time to get pregnant. In the not so distant past, 25 year olds used to look like today's 45, and the signal was universally received. nostr:note1ldsczwh32lavaq580lwmvtagn0xrs3rgnpf6ma485cpkpuhhmvgs8t9vka
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That's thinking! Might be onto something there
I think it's mainly a political problem though. For at least half a century we have systematically chosen political options that inevitably lead to lower fertility rates. People simply can't afford children, be it in money currency or in time currency. But again, that's entirely a political choice, we're all guilty.
So many factors. But yeah, waiting too long is one of them.
You live in Japan, right? Paradigmatic.
Yes. I can see some of the reasons here. But last night I was asking what Japanese people think not for random opinions.
All Japanese and Spanish people I know:
"Can't find/not interested in a partner"
"Can't afford children"
"Haven't got time for children"
"You can always go in-vitro"
In Japan, as in other places like Spain, people have chosen to keep propping up many social and economic institutions that are directly anti-birth and anti-family, for the sake of a given social order. As I said in another note, human societies make the choices, and then nature self-regulates.
Japan's current lifestyle, like Spain's, is a recipe for demographic extinction. There are many reasons why individuals may make a strictly rational personal choice to go along with it, and I don't oppose that.
I'm just saying that at the collective level, societies that choose that path simply go extinct and eventually either disappear completely replaced by others, or reverse course and change their ways.