A Long-Term Existential Crisis For Lithuania?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Lithuania's birth rate continues to fall... is this a slow existential crisis?
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The saying "It takes a village to raise a child" is such a good saying. I like the idea of the "grandparents" raising their children's children as they have more experience and more free time. The actual parents can then work and also do physical activities later. This way the parents would actually learn to be parents, and by the time they are grandparents - the cycle can repeat.
We need more children! :)
As always, a good and informative video.
Instead of governments droning on about decrease in birth rates, perhaps they should focus on changing the entire tax and pension system that relies on high birth rates and migration. It's clear that the issue is a complex one and it won't change unless women are once again reduced to being birthing cows. Also, I was shocked to hear about postpartum care for women (and men!) in Lithuania. No pelvic floor therapy, no actual psychological help, doctors acting like they're gods and treating first time parents like crap, and the whole "just shut up and live through the pain, everyone suffers" mentality.
If they actually took away all the financial difficulties of raising a child, the birth rate would improve, but wouldn't completely solve the problem. It is a cultural issue where individualism stands above all and people moving to other cities or countries means not having a close support group that could help with raising children.
It's just a lot easier for women nowadays to have careers instead of getting into the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. There's also a lot of past trauma of men being abusive towards women in Lithuania so I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future the birth rate falls to the levels of South Korea (0.8)
2015 had visible increase in birth rate. Would be interesting to explore what was causes of it.
Those policies clearly don’t work, yet they keep stepping on the same rake again and again. Why repeat something that doesn’t work? Why not visit countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, or Georgia to see why they are doing better? We started from the same point as the former Soviet states, and they were doing much worse in the beginning before they picked up economic growth. Different cultures, same mentality. Let’s find out what they’re doing differently.
This is a civilizational problem. A problem that does not have simple solutions sadly. To fix this there would be a need for a society level shift on dozens of issues, some of which, like the value of mass immigration, are controversial and would need to be addressed. Throwing money at the problem won't work.
The birthrate in Canada is 1.33. Compared to 1.18,.it is an anomaly since the cost of living is lower in Lithuania than Canada. Most countries have birthdates well below the replacement value. What do you conclude? The "world overpopulation crisis" is a myth. The data clearly shows it.
We need protection of all humans life from moment of conception.
One Canadian journalist (forgot his name - have bad memory for names) years ago suggested that birth rate decline is mostly due to the welfare policies in developed countries. In old times your children were your welfare - more you have kids, more secure you are when retired (if you can retire at all). So what you need to increase birth rate is to eliminate pensions. Of course no government would do that.
There are many states in the world where welfare is defacto nonexistant but birthrates are below replacement level. What welfare will you get in Bangladesh or North Korea? Those places are also below replacement fertility.
problem there isnt much you can do, without doing away whit some human and woman rights.
Places where people have lot of children, have lots of uneducated woman, and no aviable abortion or concatraption
But i doupt anyone in Lithuania would be willing to ban womans education, rights to concatraption and abortion just to force birth rates up
"Overpopulation? In global sense needs to be addressed" what are you smoking? Take any flight to any where, vast majority of land is empty! Where is over population dude?
I guess, life is too stressful nowadays..
Our great-grandparents lived through poverty, wars and pandemics and still had 3-4 kids on average.
In Africa where the average is 5 children per woman the life is not stressful at all, the only worry is where to get water.
Yet they still won't allow dual citizenship for people like me of Lithuanian heritage and name, with relatives still in Lithuania because my great-grandfather left before 1918.
A person cannot have two homelands
Do you want them to become like India *ahem* Canada?
@@radwooah Yes I want to become like Canada. With current geopolitical situation Canada might soon need 10 million sepoys to restore the 12 colonies. A loyal Indian is better than octuple citizenship nomad "citizen of the world". Fish shaving migration should stay where they are. If they sold themselves once, they will jump on another owner who offers more.
@IIIIlllll000OOO What are you talking about? Indians, much like their muslim counterparts, only care about the interests of their native homelands and people. They refuse to 'assimilate' (not that such thing exists), it is common for them to create their own little enclaves in every country they go to. If you think an Indian can genuinely be a patriot to nations of European origins you are fooling yourself. We are already seeing them try to outlaw 'Hinduphobia' and censor accounts on X who stand in opposition to H1-B visas. Heck, even some white Canadians like this youtuber often complain how Lithuania is not accomodating enough to his people. And you think letting in hundreds of thousands of people from totally different backgrounds is a good idea? Mass immigration is never going to work long-term, it will create more problems than it solves. The entire world is set to fall below replacement fertility in a few decades. We can't just keep stealing qualified workers from developing nations forever because eventually they will need them back home.
@@radwooah You don't need to integrate anyone. They can be housed in regimental cantons where they can practice their traditions without interference. The only duty is service and taxes, after that they can do whatever they want.
Population of Canada is 40 million. I will remind you that the head of state is still the King. The Indian is a subject of the same commonwealth, even though this commonwealth was disintegrated by nationalists.
Canada is bordered by a traitor province of 300 million. The force ratio is astronomical. The only way to reach parity is to bring in manpower from distant colonies. In India there is 1500 million people. Even if you bring in 200 million, you reach parity. If you bring in more, you reach superiority. Some kind of treaty can be reached with Mexico. By that point the bounds can be set wider and wider again.
On the timescale of a monarchy, 250 years is yesterday.
In this economy ? Better to raise kitten than noisy kid.
You just dislike kids and responsibility. Birth rates have been critically low since the 80s. This has nothing to do with 'the economy' and everything with 'the culture'.
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Well, we all have this problem and you know the problem so why you don’t do nothing against
Ok...
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