• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Gonna leave this here from a reply I made to a similar thread weeks ago. China’s demographics are in very bad shape.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      This was mostly created by the one child policy that ran from 1979-2016, coupled with male child preference. In China, a male child is responsible for taking care of his own parents, while females are responsible for caring for their in-laws.

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        12 days ago

        In large part yes, but younger generations are also not especially motivated to have kids when they already have to deal with a soul-crushing workplace (much worse than in the west).

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            12 days ago

            Yeah, it’s bad. There are fewer worker protections and unions are illegal.

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        12 days ago

        If it was just that, surely there’d be a rebound visible on the chart after 2016 (8-year-olds and younger)? Instead it falls off even harder

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          12 days ago

          At this point the culture had shifted to not value large families and so few even think it is possible while not having kids seems like a valid option. It takes years to shift this even with an effort to encourage kids.

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
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    11 days ago

    Well, we will know things will have gotten real bad when they start approaching sex offenders for fertility studies in an Operation Paperclip type arrangement