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Antoine Boyer & Yeore Kim: "The Waltz Only You Can Dance"

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))9/20/2021 4:34:44 am PDT

re: #54 Barefoot Grin

Yes. I was just giving historical context. The government was aware of the potential problems in the 1950s and dispatched women to teach/push contraception, particularly in the countryside. Still, families were large. That generation coincided with increased prosperity, better education, and better health services. Men tended to self-select for death with stress, tobacco, alcohol, and perhaps jobs in polluted places. But women lived on.

I’ve heard that there are parallels with western Europe. Does this track at all with Germany?

German birth rates are way below replacement, currently around 1.6.

This again is due to the economic situation in which housewives have to work full-time to help finance the cost of raising and housing a family, especially with ever-rising real estate and rental costs.

And their education system that keeps the most educated women in school/university until their mid-to-late 20’s, whereupon they have to establish themselves in their new careers and are not in a position to think about taking time to raise a family until they are pushing 30.