No Sex Please We’re Chinese
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No Sex Please We’re Chinese
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#2China’s demographic crisis, according to a researcher, has a very simple explanation: Chinese work too much, and are just too tired to make love.
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#3I live in europe, and I'm used to standard 40h workweek (and usually not an hour more than that)... but I've also worked (in my younger years) some crazy hours, especially with college lectures+work1+work2.
I don't think the "i'm too tired to have sex" is the problem... I know it's anecdotal, but during that time, the bigger problem was trying to find someone to have sex with (actually going out there and meeting new people). The second problem, with so much work, adding aditional work (a child + extra cost + extra work for childcare + extra time needed) was not a pleasant thought.
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#4I doubt it. Having children is not first and foremost a consequence of having sex, it's an active choice that you make plans for. When you have to work long hours, have no financial support for childcare, having aging parents to take care of, then there's just no room for having kids. I live in arguably one of the best countries for raising kids, with 18 months parental leave, free preschool, higher education, retirement homes for aging parents, health care, and just a child-friendly work environment overall (even dads are expected to be gone for at least a few months), and it's STILL super hard to raise a child. I can't imagine how hard it must be without all those perks, and I completely understand why many people choose not to.
Also interesting: despite all these policies the birthrate is still as low as 1.7, meaning there must be other factors why people are not having kids globally.
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#5China’s demographic crisis, according to a researcher, has a very simple explanation: Chinese work too much, and are just too tired to make love.
Are you forgetting the one child policy?
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#6> the CCP is organizing scholarly conferences and asking researchers to look for the root causes of the demographic problem.
What a proactive approach. I wish Western governments emulated it.
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#7> the CCP is organizing scholarly conferences and asking researchers to look for the root causes of the demographic problem. What a proactive approach. I wish Western governments emulated it.
>What a proactive approach. I wish Western governments emulated it.
They have. They've decided that importing the entire third world into the West is the only solution. The West as we've known it for 2000 years won't make it past 2100 due to this demographic shift. There is no turning back, there is no undoing what has been done. Europeans and White people are the only shrinking demographic in their home countries.
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#8> the CCP is organizing scholarly conferences and asking researchers to look for the root causes of the demographic problem. What a proactive approach. I wish Western governments emulated it.
>What a proactive approach. I wish Western governments emulated it. They have. They've decided that importing the entire third world into the West is the only solution. The West as we've known it for 2000 years won't make it past 2100 due to this demographic shift. There is no turning back, there is no undoing what has been done. Europeans and White people are the only shrinking demographic in their home countries.
> The West as we've known it for 2000 years won't make it past 2100 due to this demographic shift.
Wonder what the Native Americans think about the “West” they knew for 2,000 years. Or anyone who has read the history of the Americas would know.
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#9I doubt it. Having children is not first and foremost a consequence of having sex, it's an active choice that you make plans for. When you have to work long hours, have no financial support for childcare, having aging parents to take care of, then there's just no room for having kids. I live in arguably one of the best countries for raising kids, with 18 months parental leave, free preschool, higher education, retire…
> Having children is not first and foremost a consequence of having sex, it's an active choice that you make plans for.
Who is “you”? Is it a woman that has no financial independence in a society where she may have to fend for herself if she does not have unprotected sex without access to birth control?
Because, until very recently, that probably describes most women’s circumstances when planning to have kids.
I am betting it is not a coincidence that the timeline for women’s financial independence and access to cheap and convenient birth control lines up with declining birth rates.
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#10China’s demographic crisis, according to a researcher, has a very simple explanation: Chinese work too much, and are just too tired to make love.
Are you forgetting the one child policy?
That is a blurb for the article posted by the submitter, the third sentence of which will answer your question.