Are education, industrialization, individual career aspirations etc. causing educated middle class families to have declining population problems?
Around 7 mins, a 2015 CBN video on Japan's (de)population problem - Japan Is Dying: All Work, No Sex Means No Future, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YslIQvRH4w
Hmm. In my early youth in 1980s, the big problem for India was population growth. Hum Do Hamare Do - 'We two and our two (children)' was the family planning slogan heavily advertised by the government.
And the population growth issue still continues for India. Limited resources when viewed against huge population of India and more material aspirations among young Indians do indicate possibility of some tough challenges in the future.
But I would never have thought then in 1980s that some top industrialized countries in the world would, in the 2010s, face a population shrinking problem along with an ageing society issue both of which have quite a negative impact on quality of life in the country. I mean, one needs youth to get infused into society on a regular basis for society to tick!
And that I think holds for families too. China has had issues with its one child per family policy (which it has since changed). But in educated middle class India quite a few families that I know are one child per family (out of choice)! [And as I am unmarried - it is 0 children for me :-) ]
Their parents had at least two children if not more! The parents' generation followed a different approach and system of life where a typical family had quite a few children. I mean, 5 to 7 children in a family was not unknown.
And now 2 children are not so common in some of these families in educated middle class India. And more than 2 children, I think, is becoming, or has already become, really rare.
Hmm. Are education, industrialization, individual career aspirations and all that causing some sections of human society to have worryingly low levels of the biological and societal survival essence that have kept human society going over millennia?
Hmm. In my early youth in 1980s, the big problem for India was population growth. Hum Do Hamare Do - 'We two and our two (children)' was the family planning slogan heavily advertised by the government.
And the population growth issue still continues for India. Limited resources when viewed against huge population of India and more material aspirations among young Indians do indicate possibility of some tough challenges in the future.
But I would never have thought then in 1980s that some top industrialized countries in the world would, in the 2010s, face a population shrinking problem along with an ageing society issue both of which have quite a negative impact on quality of life in the country. I mean, one needs youth to get infused into society on a regular basis for society to tick!
And that I think holds for families too. China has had issues with its one child per family policy (which it has since changed). But in educated middle class India quite a few families that I know are one child per family (out of choice)! [And as I am unmarried - it is 0 children for me :-) ]
Their parents had at least two children if not more! The parents' generation followed a different approach and system of life where a typical family had quite a few children. I mean, 5 to 7 children in a family was not unknown.
And now 2 children are not so common in some of these families in educated middle class India. And more than 2 children, I think, is becoming, or has already become, really rare.
Hmm. Are education, industrialization, individual career aspirations and all that causing some sections of human society to have worryingly low levels of the biological and societal survival essence that have kept human society going over millennia?
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