Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
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Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
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Re: Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
#2Url changed from https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679103541/japans-population-i..., which points to this.
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#3Do the Japanese do anything to making having children easier? Free daycare?
Re: Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
#4Recent social experiment (East/West Germany) proves one thing: people make babies, when their life is poor and dull.
And on the global scale we can state that people make babies when they have no pension nor elderly care.
And from nordic countries we can learn that free daycare is the baby killer number one. This is because you can make safely make babies "any time" and then you postpone it until too late. In Americas you need careful financial planning beforehand, considering there is no daycare or schooling or healthcare or much anything, but most succeed and execute their plan.
Re: Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
#5Recent social experiment (East/West Germany) proves one thing: people make babies, when their life is poor and dull. And on the global scale we can state that people make babies when they have no pension nor elderly care. And from nordic countries we can learn that free daycare is the baby killer number one. This is because you can make safely make babies "any time" and then you postpone it until too late. In America…
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#6Do the Japanese do anything to making having children easier? Free daycare?
They try very hard to ensure that mothers can’t get good jobs, thus obligating them to stay home and make more babies. Surprisingly, it hasn’t worked very well.
Source: lives here. Most of the 30 and above working mothers I’ve encountered in my time are part time workers without benefits.
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#7It wouldn’t be too much of an issue of their welfare system (like any other welfare system) wouldn’t be a ponzi scheme. Their tax rates are already crippling.
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#8Good Idea actually. In Norway this issue was studied when it still was still politically possible. The probability of a baby becoming "marginaliserad" ie social fuck-up was 40% for single mothers, 20% for working mothers and "incredibly low" for full-time mothers. Babies have no absolute intrinsic value perse, this is why replacing natives with imported IQ-72 people does not work.
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#9It wouldn’t be too much of an issue of their welfare system (like any other welfare system) wouldn’t be a ponzi scheme. Their tax rates are already crippling.
Moral hazard. Their welfare system removes the incentive to have children. Could be fixed by giving parents a cut of the tax revenue of their future children.
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#10My country is even worse, 1.31.
Japan looks like a kindergarten compared to Portugal.