• Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Those with higher income levels are the ones deciding to have less kids, whereas those with the lowest incomes are the ones having more. Source

    If people are being forced into not having children for economic reasons, wouldn’t it be the opposite?

    • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      Because those dots are countries (with vastly different social and economic structures) not people. The people in the lower-income countries probably don’t depend on money in their lives as much as people in richer countries do. Your source also lists other reasons.

      Also I’d say go back in time here in the US and you’d see something similar here with farm families, but that makes less sense now when land/housing is expensive and giant expensive machinery (that you probably wouldn’t trust anybody else with) does much of the work. That and 100 other factors that make it not work like that.

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      9 months ago

      This is copy paste from your replies elsewhere in the thread. F-off with your purposefully misleading comment. That just says more developed countries have less kids, which we know. That has nothing to do with internal trends.

      • Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        This was actually the first comment I made and then copy pasted to the other one as it applies to both. Regardless, the internal trends are the same. Here’s a source for USA. Sorry if that doesn’t fit your worldview.