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 “money” falls short as an explanation (though it’s certainly part of it). Some countries like Sweden have substantially better state support for parents that the standard and the Swedish population isn’t exactly poor in general, either, yet they aren’t really getting that many more children than poorer countries with less support for parents.
Maybe so much money you can get other people to raise your kids for you, that kinda money 😎