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Taiwan has surpassed South Korea as the country least willing to have children, with an annual crude birthrate of 4.62 per 1,000 people, Ministry of the Interior data showed yesterday.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260110170109/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/01/10/2003850357


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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm religious. But I'm afraid I also don't understand the switch from "overpopulation is a problem" to "people need to have more kids".

But if people do want others to have more children, maybe invest in the resources and infrastructure to enable that. Make houses affordable for young families, don't work them to death. Normalise at least one of: free child care, 3 day work weeks, or single person income being enough to raise a family.

Also, in the US, maybe address those school shootings and car deaths; it seems American society has been redesigned explicitly to be as hostile as possible to children. But at least that's something other countries do better. Houses are too expensive everywhere, though. And wages too low.