Halifax Tar
Army.ca Fixture
- Reaction score
- 10,918
- Points
- 1,260
The problem is that any population needs youth to fill in the blank file when the elderly start to retire and die off.
If we aren't generating that youth ourselves, we have to import them (immigration), and that is a cumbersome practice that may or may not yield results.
The reason our birth rate is plummeting, even in the face of childbearing policies that encourage parents to take time off, is cost of living being exorbitant.
When you have younger generations, who saw their parents raise kids in relative affluence, struggle to afford housing and groceries for themselves and their partner/pets; the thought of adding another mouth to feed is the last thing on their minds.
Add to the fact that societal and familial stigma on being childless has all but disappeared, those who wouldn't want to have kids, aren't.
Isn't there a correlation between affluence and birth rates ?
Meaning the more affluent a group is the less they reproduce ?
Definitely stand to be corrected here.