Data Scientist Explains Why Population Collapse Is Happening

💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 Stephen J. Shaw is a demographer and data scientist. He is the writer and director of the documentary 'Birthgap - Childless World,' which examines the global drop in birth rates. #podcast #interview #population

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[shikb]

What I heard growing up. .
-if you can’t afford a child then don’t have a child it’s not the government a.k.a. other taxpayers responsibility to help raise your child.
What I hear now. . .
-why aren’t people having babies anymore?

[Darkoryou]

The best contraception in the western world is high property prices...

[comet]

As one person put it, the wolves are mad the sheep are not producing.

[thomasfairfax]

I don't have children because I can't afford them. And I refuse to have them grow up in the poverty I did.

[samrc]

A lot of this is anecdotal. Most of my friends just don’t want kids and quite honestly, they don’t owe anyone one any explanation for why.

[HettesKvek]

I'm a 33 year old man with no children. Why? No girlfriend. Why? Because mental health issues and dating culture sucks.

[kjkj]

Woman. Slowly approaching 30s.

Still saving for a house and loosing the battle as prices are skyrocketing every year.

Would get pregnant but I am busy working and saving.

Child = no savings -> no house -> giving half of my salary to landlords till the end of my life -> poverty -> modern slavery.

[Medicine]

Once you start discussing solutions, you realize that division of labor is crucial. You need a breadwinner so the woman can afford to have children when she's most fertile (20s). Most people in their 20s have negative net worth, so there is a mismatch for women unless they have a partner who has high income (i.e. older).

[yourname]

Population decline is a symptom from a society using fiat currency that devalues with time.

[wthomas]

This isn't a mystery. Having kids is no longer a good survival bet. You're better off on your own.

[olegstrekachev]

What is the alternative - having kids before having a career? And then what? US maternity leave is 12 weeks. Then both parents got to work 9 to 5 (good scenario) in order to afford mortgage and bills, pick their kids from childcare and get home by 6, do chores, go to bed. Repeat 5 times a week. When you are poor you don't even have time to see your kids that much. Practical alternative is having functioning multi generational families, when grandparents help their kids. But for some reason, at least in US, living with parents in mid-late 20s and 30s is stigmatized both for kids and parents. It is often looked upon in a way that grandparents suffer because their overgrown kiddies couldn't make it to get out of family home. Also if you are a man in your 20s or 30s try to go to the date in US and say that you live in your parent's home and look at the reaction :)

[bribri]

It's not that men and women can't find a partner when it's convenient, it's that we don't know if it's THE RIGHT partner for such a risky long-term investment. Many of us don't gamble because the juice isn't worth the squeeze. I am male 38 single childless and staying that way.

[CliffordRutley]

Saying there's 8 times as many of us on this planet as there was just over 200 years ago, I'd say a fall in birth rates is probably a good thing.

[gillianyoung]

This man has described my life exactly. Never the right time and then it was too late

[Geordie-rrgq]

My sister's part of a support group for women who never had kids even thought they would have liked to. So many of them are 40+, living alone, struggling to pay their mortgages, working overtime in the careers they prioritised for too long and feeling utterly hollow.

[RedArtistx]

This is me. A woman approaching late 30s. I left my partner at the worst time I could have left him (start of the pandemic). For practical and emotional reasons, I have not moved on. I'm ready to, but now I think it's just too late and I will not rush to have a baby with someone who isn't suitable, otherwise I might as well have stayed with my ex. I'm also not interested in doing it alone. I delayed having children for what I now realise were a multitude of reasons, everything from family background to personality, to choice of partner, circumstances and finances. It never felt right, and mostly even felt deeply wrong, even disgusted me and filled me with fear in a way that I don't think a lot of people have experienced. I realised over a period of time, that a part of the issue was that I simply didn't want my partner's children. It wasn't an obvious thing as he ticked a lot of boxes. There is a very high cost for women, and men really who have children with the wrong person, and I don't know if my life would be significantly better now if I had stayed, but my impression is that I wouldn't have been.

[megamankeht]

Pretty simple for me. No life skills. 37. No money. Hate myself. Miserable. I would rather apologize to my parents for failing them than my child. I know I’m worthless believe me. I wish things had turned out differently or I was someone ele completely.

[katrinamareen]

Women need stability, support and finance. They need to be psychologically and physically prepared for childbirth... and this is not just women, men need the same things to become fathers. Society is messed up and does not allow these things to occur in most people until they are 30's/40's or even at all.

[ralphengland]

Don't wait to have kids. There is never a "good time" to have kids... but if you wait you'll find it definitely a worse time as time goes on.

[chriscray]

I do agree but its more to do with nature, there was a famous saying about this. " if a animal is in an environment that safe and nutritional to its it need it will reproduce but if the environment is hostile to its needs it will naturally not reproduce" sadly the environment we live in is very hostile and does not cater to our needs.