All the local over the air news stations in my area…
(super cheery voice, on the verge of giddiness) Tonight we learn more from local investigators about the tragic bus accident that left 14 orphans dead and 10 others in critical condition. (almost laughing, kind of giggly voice) So tragic.
But first, who will Mandy pick tonight on The Surrogate Show, find out at 9 p.m. right here on channel 8 WPPV-TV. And stick around to meet the Dachshund that adopted an abandoned baby squirrel and find out what you can do to help support her family.
I do think that the Nordic countries show pretty well that even if you treat your population well and put quite a lot of effort into helping the population with child rearing, it seems like women just don’t want to have many children in modern society, even before everything became doom-and-gloom.
Maybe that’s just how it goes when you let people decide for themselves. Or maybe modern, capitalistic society is just not conducive to childrearing, and no amount of state support for young families, kindergartens etc. is going to change that.
I read this article recently and you might find it interesting as well: Commodification of housing and fertility rates
TL,DR: high housing prices delay and reduce fertility rates.
In this context, Nordic countries are not much better than the rest of the developed world (don’t like this descriptor, but I can’t come up with a better one)
I just don’t like children so I chose not to have any
Pretty simple
Don’t forget the backsliding civil rights and ecological doom
