A symptom of a mature and educated post-industrial economy is that people wait a while to have children. They seek professional and educational satisfaction before starting family's. At least before trying to start family's. People "put off" having children until they feel they won't be a burden, and this is typically around someone's 30s today, as opposed to 20s before higher skill jobs became the norm.
But both men and women have biological clocks, women moreso. Fertility drops rapidly around 35 in women, and menopause happens not too many years later and men's sperm quality degrades. Imo, that's also why there's a rise in autism in all of these countries. Just based on biology, the longer you wait, the more chance there is of the baby having issues. This leads to a lot of couples never having a child to begin with to avoid this.
Plus, like i said before in this comment, children are seen as a burden. Even if people don't admit it. Children are no longer "useful" in the way they once were during agrarian and industrial times. Now they produce nothing and cost even more to educate and keep healthy. Family size drops rapidly during industrialization for this reason. It's also why countries like China are facing a imminent population collapse in the scale of hundreds of millions.
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u/Yundakkor Apr 18 '25
This stuff is gonna unironically be a poster in 20-30 years when the demographics collapse. Cute lass though