The world is facing global population decline. This could lead to the end of civilization as we know it. Financial help and a positive message toward having children may help.
Demographic collapse is a huge threat to economic growth.
As countries urbanize, having kids becomes more of a burden, and as women enter the workforce, having children is detrimental to their careers and they are out of a cultural context where having children is more expected. People don’t have children at all, or women wait till their 30s where they have less time to have children and having children is biologically more difficult.
“According to a new investigation from The Marshall Project, hospitals are giving women drugs during labor and then reporting them to child welfare services when they later test positive for those same drugs. These cases are one of the more maddening side effects of an out-of-control drug war combined with strict mandatory reporting laws.”
Demographic collapse is a huge problem! We are self-annihilating by not having enough children. Working to solve this doesn’t need to threaten women’s rights or force anyone to have children.