As quality of life rises there are more things competing for peoples interest as well as the cost of large raising a child being very high. Like if you’re 25 and making money do you want to fly around the world creating experiences and having fun in the short term or do you want to save up your money to spend it all on your kids.
To increase births the recurring living costs need to go down, we need housing to ~20% rents or house prices. Maybe groceries down 10% and we’re probably see an increase. Public daycare’s becoming more common as well because that costs an arm and a leg.
Also im reason only leaving out working time because its not bad here averaging 37 hours per week with lots of holidays and paid maturinty leave and your job must be held open for you to return to.
The 25 year olds I know aren’t choosing between kids and travel, they’re choosing between kids and groceries… rent is too high to make it on one income, even for a lot of my college educated peers.
As quality of life rises there are more things competing for peoples interest as well as the cost of large raising a child being very high. Like if you’re 25 and making money do you want to fly around the world creating experiences and having fun in the short term or do you want to save up your money to spend it all on your kids.
To increase births the recurring living costs need to go down, we need housing to ~20% rents or house prices. Maybe groceries down 10% and we’re probably see an increase. Public daycare’s becoming more common as well because that costs an arm and a leg.
Also im reason only leaving out working time because its not bad here averaging 37 hours per week with lots of holidays and paid maturinty leave and your job must be held open for you to return to.
The 25 year olds I know aren’t choosing between kids and travel, they’re choosing between kids and groceries… rent is too high to make it on one income, even for a lot of my college educated peers.
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