This article notes that “right-wing governments, including the US and Hungary, are increasingly blaming falling fertility rates on a rejection of parenthood”, as if today’s young adults just don’t want children.
But the author suggests that actually people do want children, and one of the main reasons they’re having fewer children is because they can’t afford many children.
Thoughts?
I think uncertainty of employment is a huge issue. Enact a right to employment law.
One off transfers aren’t enough, there has to be consistent income stream. The hours of the work offered under this law must be flexible.
Of course, none of that is going to happen if the Government has a neoliberal mindset.
Better yet, offer no strings attached income. For everyone. We have a lot of jobs that don’t really need to exist and it’s entirely senseless to force people to do bullshit work. We gotta escape this nonsense cultural dead end that says work is some noble purpose.
Now that is an objectively true position that will never get traction in our hellworld.