Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

Post by DSingularity » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:23 AM UTC

decafninja wrote: post #118

internet_user wrote: post #114

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why adoption instead of IVF?

Watching her friends and my friends' wives go through it, we've been scared off. Add to that, the usual HN phenomenon that we're observing how the world and our countries (USA & Korea) seem be going down the toilet, and that makes us feel hesitant to bring a new human being into the world, especially when there are kids already here that could use a loving family.

Post by shadowofneptune » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

ctoth wrote: post #63

throwaway_4ever wrote: post #12

Something has deeply deeply changed in society for a fertility rate to go from 6 to 0.8 in 60 years, the living memory of a single life. Before, society grew with the average working age person only needing to half support an elderly retiree. Now, that same working age person will need to support more than 2 elderly retirees themselves, over 4 times the resources. Has it occurred to people that, maybe, modern fertili…

> Something has deeply deeply changed in society for a fertility rate to go from 6 to 0.8 in 60 years Does the change necessarily have to be societal? > In 1992, a study found a global 50% decline in sperm counts in men over the previous 60 years. Multiple studies over subsequent years confirmed that initial finding, including a 2017 paper showing a 50% to 60% decline in sperm concentration between 1973 and 2011 in m…

Post by lotsofpulp » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

mrcartmeneses wrote: post #121

decafninja wrote: post #106

My wife and I are Korean-American, albeit with many ties to our country of origin. Something I've noticed is that many couples that do want a child have a very difficult time conceiving. People are having kids at a later age on average, but even younger couples seem to have a hard time. Various gynecological disorders seem to be very common too - fibroids, endometriosis, adenomyosis, amongst others, all of which affe…

Regarding twins, doctors like to implant two embryos to give a better chance of successful insemination per procedure.

Post by pengaru » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

adverbly wrote: post #70

pengaru wrote: post #22

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There's just a lump in the population vs. age graph and you're fixating on the back side of the lump as if it's inevitably going towards zero. After the lump passes through South Koreans will look around and see a lack of traffic congestion, abundance of housing, lack of competitors for their now abundant resources, and lack of disproportionately large population of unproductive elderly dependents. Wanna guess what h…

> After the lump passes through South Koreans will look around and see a lack of traffic congestion, abundance of housing, lack of competitors for their now abundant resources, and lack of disproportionately large population of unproductive elderly dependents. It will take 90 years for this lump to pass, and another 20 years for the newborns to grow up... you're talking about a recovery that will take a century... A…

Post by decafninja » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:29 AM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #135

mrcartmeneses wrote: post #121

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Regarding twins, doctors like to implant two embryos to give a better chance of successful insemination per procedure.

I was told by an OB that this was no longer done in the US since the Octo mom spectacle.