It's pretty funny that the success sequence is "don't get married or have kids until you have a job and an education" but then the exact same people who push it get FURIOUS about it resulting in *girls* not becoming breederslaves at 19 and instead getting an education and a job
https://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1912119077683843111
Like a major cultural change is that being a parent is something you have to *plan* for, and that certain conditions have to be in place for that plan (job, degree, housing). And like you can quibble about how that works out, but at least in the short-term it means fewer kids
The rise in single mothers is similar and is mostly a *fatherhood* issue: the guys to pump and dump it are not desirable husbands or fathers and, without stigma, there's no reason to marry them. People care about family so much that they want to wait for the perfect match!
So all in all if there's any explanation for the *global* decline in fertility is a *global* increase in youth fertility control (especially the near erradication of teen pregnancy) and a decline in marriage rates, mostly because of lower socialization but also higher standards
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