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I don’t like children

I'm fortunate enough to have inherited a house. Thanks to this me and my partner can afford to have children and for me to stay home with them. The housing crisis causes the baby crisis.

Who is that woman around 45 minutes in talking about ppl childless because of their situation? I NEED to see the entire video.

Societies have prioritized capitalist consumption and lifestyle over children and family. Tadaa! Thank you US global corporations! From telling us how to eat to now how to shape our societies for a profit. Im curious to see how "democracies" will handle this stress test where the majority of population ( the elderly) want handouts and health care paid for...but the money requirements will stress out the younger and minority of the population. :L And South Korea - youre gonna tell me that times are harder now than 60 years ago after the Korean war? :/

you want women to be mothers when we have such a high rate of single mothers. being a single mother is super hard and i would rather be alone than to take that chanc. how can a family even support eachother in this society if we cant put food in our own mouths

If a government's policy is to take tax money from fertile people and give it to retirees ... what is that doing for population maintenance? I'm not saying I want the elderly to live in poverty, but those polices are taking money from families with children and from people with the capacity to have children.

Where the playgrounds are empty and the nursing homes are full? At least you don’t have a sandwiched generation having to take care of the young and the old at the same time.

I think one larger reason for the lack of interest in the reduced birthrate, at least by those in charge, probably comes from the fact that a large portion of our populations live in the major cities. However, despite their birthrates being bad there, the continuous stream of people coming into the city, means that people in them don't notice the issues that come from it and more often than not feel the pressure of overpopulation like rising costs and housing shortages. In the cities the issues they will likely notice will be things like ethnic demographic change, growing number of elderly, and the economical issues that come from it. While in rural regions, smaller or not as popular cities, and even suburban regions will notice the major issues that come with a reduction in population. This divide will likely mean a massive divide in the issues noticed between the more highly urban elite and non-urban elite.

The only event in modern history where the birth rate collapse was successfully reverse direction is 1967. where the dictatorship Romanian communist government banned abortion, causing the birth rate to jump from 1.90 in 1966 to 3.66 in 1967 and ending up stable at 2.44 -2.22 in the 1973-1989 period. and then the brith rate fell again simultaneously with the fall of the Romanian communist party.

These systems are not safe for the children you want us to bare to become your slaves.

I am just going that fat lady prime minister of Norway telling people they need more babies is very bad marketing they should of use a hot young women with great assets that might have gone over better just a bit of dark humour to cope with this depressing situation

Isn't the common explanation female education?

Thanks!

I come from a family of sociologists, and my grandpa introduced me to the concept of population collapse when I was 15. Intrigued, I started researching the topic and even gave a presentation in school. Despite my efforts, my teacher didn't believe me. Well, a decade and a half later, the evidence speaks for itself.

The only event in modern history where the birth rate collapse was successfully reverse direction is 1967. where the Romanian communist government banned abortion, causing the birth rate to rise from 1.90 in 1966 to 3.66 in 1967 and ending up stable at 2.44 -2.22 in the 1973-1989 period. and then the brith rate fell again simultaneously with the fall of the Romanian communist party.

Yes in WEST countries and even in China people have less and less childrens, and this will bite back in long term.

I was very disappointed in this film. Mainly due to the fact that everyone keeps saying "It's a mystery?" "We don't understand?" NEWSFLASH ! It's not a mystery. It's very simple but the people that made this film are part of the group responsible for the crisis. In the USA to "responsibly" have children you should (1) have a home (2) have a parent that stays home with the children when they are young, a one income household (3) have the desire to have children (4) not want to constantly want endless self gratification such as endless traveling and buying of "toys". (5) have a realistic view of what it means to have a long term successful relationship. it requires MATURITY that I am not seeing in the younger generations. I am 65 and have 2 sons. One of them fits the criterion for having children, the other does not and unfortunately probably never will. I also have 6 nieces and nephews and of them maybe one of them fits the criterion. There is the explanation for the GAP. So why did this happen. Because MY GENERATION screwed it up. My generation ruined the housing market with our endless greed we made owning a house extremely hard. (It's shocking how many younger generation think living is a van it the only home they can afford) My GENERATION ruined the job market, our greed encouraged women to work, not because they had too, but we reasoned that more money would afford us more toys, a bigger house, more vacations etc. But the marketplace seeing this extra money quickly absorbed it and soon the luxury of the second income became a necessity. And finally we did a piss poor job raising our kids. We weren't around enough, we felt guilty about that and spoiled our kids with Xboxes and phones instead of good quality time and teaching. The result it that so many of the younger generations don't want to be like us (is it any wonder) and don't appreciate the sacrifice needed to achieve something satisfying.... like what my parents did,

The media has shown us that we have an overpopulation. That we have too many people to feed, house, give services to. Agencies dictate what we learn and see. I am in my 50s and was told we had an over population. I never had a child because of "over population". This narrative is still screamed out today by the WEF, and climate changers. ....or my gosh we have 8 Billion people. We are killing the planet. NOT THAT WE WILL HAVE GHOST TOWNS AND CITIES.

Worldwide trends of 1) agriculture shifting to industrial; 2) educational levels of girls & women rising to those of men; 3) rising health levels & added lifespan lengths; 4) rural living switching to urban societies; etc -- do you see any reversal of these global trends in the next decades?? Do you really want to go back to the times of 50,000 years ago, when humans were still "untouched" by these developments??

@26:30 I hadn’t thought about this… that even if we get a massive boost in births… the problem is actually temporarily even worse because we’ll have massive numbers of the most unproductive and dependent (younglings and elderly)…

Just to get a job that pays decent wages causes future long term debt. Asking nurses to 'pay' for their training. Accusing proffessionals - doctors being greedy for asking for a 30 % wage increase.? The reality is that at £14.00 an hour for junior doctors a 30% increase brings that up to around £20.00. And 'junior' is misleading - 6 plus years of training and working 40 hour weeks - still 'junior'. Encouraging the young to attend university at great expense to have no or little chance of employment. Zero contract hours. The huge expense of childcare. No wonder having children seems like an impossible task. This world is an economic nightmare - Slavelandier.

I am too scared of pregnancy and childbirth 😨 but that certainly doesn't mean there are plenty of others out that can help fix this to this problem. I am not surprised that this is where the rise of AI comes in! Because there aren't enough young people to support the old due to low birth rates. They'd be replaced with AI and civilization could eventually become more dominate for them. Wokeness, feminism, inflation, lockdowns and discouragement from having kids due to climate fear monger plus animal activists + environmentalists slandering humanity and are willing to dehumanize us certainly does not help with the declining birth rate. But whose fault is this? It wasn't robots! It was other humans that invented all this and are the ones behind the idea of AI. Proof that humanity is more likely to put themselves into extinction than AI is.

Respect motherhood. Pay motherhood. Then this problem will disappear.

Self-destruction of the capitalist society

Climate change is a lie. Its still highly debated. We as humans do what no other animal can. We invent solutions. There is no way accurately predict the planets population limit. If you say theres too man people, and its good women aren't becoming mothers. You are anti human..

THEY ALL THINK THEY CaN HAVE CHILDREN LAATER IN LIFE. YOU NEED TO HAVE CHILDREN YOUNG!!

There was a celebrity woman in Korea that was shamed online cause she decided to get a tube baby since she had yet to find a partner and she really wanted a child NOW. Shaming if they don't and even if they do.

In the old days, there was of course no pill and if you were a farmer - kids = more workers

Again, another man trying to tell women what to do and oh all the regret! Obnoxious claptrap. Stop giving ultra right wing governments fuel to control women further.

Around 1960, for the first time in evolution women did not have to worry about getting pregnant. They had no idea what to do with the freedom because their instincts from evolution did not change, their societal thinking did not change, but boy, did they become more picky, particularly in their 20s. Plenty of time, plenty of time ..... whoops, run out of time for 80%. Perhaps it is something larger, perhaps it is nature/God imposing a balance?

Worrying so much about giving the child things, they do not even give it life

Fiat money is the cause.

Everyone don't seem to have faith that everything will be OK

Societies that don't adjust to its population fail, whether it's an excess or a depletion of human capital.

do you have data abour south america birtgap?

There ARE too many people on earth. The decline in birth might be damaging to the human society in a financial manner, but aside from humans earth has many other inhabitants who suffer and die because of our over population. It's impossible to ignore the fact that in less than 100 years human numbers increased by 6 BILLION. From 2 billion to 8 billion. Will reach at least 10 billion. This is crazy. Anyway, good documentary. It was interesting to hear that 80% of childess women are not in this situation by choice. Perior to this, I thought that there are simply a lot of childfree couples.

If everyone had one child , we would never have had this situation to begin with. Even now we are looking at the economy, pensions, number of old versus number of young etc. these are the wrong parameters. We should be looking for helping people and communities.

In the next decades governments worldwide will start proposing fertility cults, this is a cycle of human psychology that has happened many times. Look into the emergence of Cybele cult during ancient Rome, which was a political tool to boost the population from the lead poisoning and population decline

It's only women's eggs; men also have problems with sperm DNA fragmentation, motility, and other stuff(as they get older).

The reason is people are focusing a lot more on career because society tells them that career is valuable and it defines you as a valuable person. Having kids is not considered valuable. Women being educated having more choices. Men and women having more fun and entertainment from 18-35, so we don't want to have the responsibility of raising a family until it's too late. Work also takes a lot in major countries. Working until 10-12 am is not conducive for raising a family. Inflation and housing costs are also killing birth rates. For families, once they have one kid, what's the difference to have 2-3? It's the 0 to 1 that's hard. Most people are scared to start something that they cannot change or return to.

Im not bringing a humanbeing with emotions into this enslaving fckd up world. Its easy to predict the future is gonna be even more terrible than this. End of the story. Im not an american btw.

Urbanization has caused the issue . The naked ape was too clever for its own good . Our comfortable lifestyle has just existed on a knife edge. We ll scratch in the dirt and go again . Ppl

In the uk, the population has been growing by 850k a year in the last 14 years due to immigration. Imagine the growth if the birth rate here was rising as well...

This time was always going to come.

I'm only concerned with the gap when first world and rich countries have few people and a good quality of life and on the other side you have overpopulated poor third world countries with intolerant cultures and ideas this contrast is bound to creat friction hatred and envy it's human to wish for a better life but at the same time egalitarianism can be a mistake especially if you welcome them in with no strict rules and program to integrate

Young women you can have your family early and then build your career later. If you have your children in your early twenties by your early 40s you're an empty nester and you can pursue any career you like without regret!

My only motherhood regret is that I only had 3 kids, I wish I had had 5.

I find it interesting that fertility rates dropped significantly just as soon as they started vaccinating routinely, yet no one studies a possible correlation. I would guess that the medical indistrial complex has a lot to do with this issue. Obviously there are many contributing factors to this but those are the top two factors on my radar.

We learned about the population decline in high school in 1980. The baby boomers were the explosion, and due to taxation, the population has been in decline ever since. There will be countries which, because of taxation, have declined to the point where they will not have any replacement population to carry the country's economy. Countries like Japan, South Korea, Canada, Vietnam, and China will fail. I suspect this is why there is a push to 2030; this would ensure the money from the seniors is transferred to governments before it gets shifted to families of the baby boomers. Governments around the world are running up debts and pushing for immigration, but without addressing taxation and assuming immigrants will kick start families. Still, historically, this has failed because taxation outweighs large families. So Canada, having one of the largest taxation bases and debts in the world per capita, will fail because they are attempting to shift the tax burden onto a working population that is 1/3 the size of those retiring and passing away. It used to be for every 10 workers, there was 1 retiree, but this shift will be more like 10 retirees for one worker, and taxation will skyrocket while retirement benefits will tank. This, coupled with higher taxation to install other benefits, will all be placed on a new immigrant population as well as the remaining working people. This kind of mismanagement results in the collapse of countries and the installation of socialism.

Replacement rate in Africa is NOT 2.1 !!!!! 2.1 children will not suffice to keep the population constant in South Sudan or Niger. The population in many african countries will be collapsing rather soon (2080?) as well.