Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born
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Fertility rate is very misleading, should be called Reproduction rate, as it has little to do with Fertility. More to do with the empowerment of women than anything else and before anyone jumps on that statement, there's thing wrong with that. |
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Two thoughts - in some place women have lots of kids because of lack of prophylaxis and also to ensure some kids survive to adulthood and can then look after the parents later in life. As healthcare improves the need for lots of kids drops.
Wonder what is going to happen Dec2020 onwards - ie 9 months after lockdown started.? |
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The fertility rate - the average number of children a woman gives birth to
Big families, thing of the past to be honest. Advances in many areas have meant we no longer need 6 kids to ensure 2 survive to adulthood. And then there's the cost, have you seen the price of 'named' trainers :shocked: all kids want a phone, TV, laptop/tablet, games console etc etc Children eh, to be honest, I reckon many families are lucky to afford one ;) |
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There is a very serious imperative to fix this, as it is the labour and the taxes of the young that cares for the old. But by the time you’re 80 years old, you face the consequences of your generation’s choice not to replace itself at the same time as finding you’re way too old to do anything about it. Today’s BBC report makes some half-hearted suggestions about tax incentives for larger families but the problem is rather more fundamental than that. In the longer run, our conception (pun intended) of the balance between our personal freedoms and our obligations to society is going to have to shift, and simple biology means that is going to have more of an impact on women than on men. Interesting times ahead. |
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Considering humans are a virus to the ecosystems around us, is it not the R number?
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Nah, the planet would benefit from a reduced population. Don't forget we're soon going to be colonising the moon and later Mars!
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As automation increases, there wouldn't be any jobs for the young people that would have been born had things not changed; they would have been an added burden as opposed to helping to keep retired people. As It's imperative that we have to start thinking about the way that we use the Earths resources too, this reduction is a good thing. I think. |
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Im pretty sure the human species survived 1000's of years with a much lower population, not sure we need to panic just yet.
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Nobody is talking about extinction, and talk of overall population number misses the point. It is the age profile of the population that is the problem in this scenario. In a welfare state (or anything close to it) the old are cared for by the young, either directly working in social care roles or indirectly by funding them through tax.
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