In a perfect world, how much time / bandwidth needs to be dedicated to boning? Obviously these all work no play cultures are failing to reproduce. But how much play: work ratios lead to success/fertility? Even in US things are very consistently stressful from capitalism, could we improve fertility by decreasing that survival stress?
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The root issue is not boning time but the economic situation and probably stress. People just dont make enough to be able to afford more kids. It doesn’t help that women don’t have much support from their husbands in terms of hands on help because they are always gone.
It feels like those complaints are also true of the US situation, not just Japan.
Of course, and look at the birth trends …
I just wish, for all of us including me, that we could be not stressed and get it in and feel all giggly and excited to be sharing news about our future families. How odd that we've stagnated so, and how strange that it seems a conundrum we cannot escape.