Actually decent point... "... banged raw without using condoms*”

Well thats part of it, but easily? No. Not having a choise sure forces the issue, but not wanting to make the choise in the first place (not wanting children) or not be given a choise (rising singles number) are things that may in part be derivative of pill and abortion, but not completely. There...

Part of it. It's got to be more complex too though. Like young men having a fraction of the testosterone that their grandads still have at 70. Chemicals in everything. Etc etc. But yeah, distractions too. People would rather watch Netflix than bump fuzzies. It's weird AF.

Cost of liv ng has huge costs impact on decision making

The real reason is that having kids is no longer profitable. They don’t work for you anymore, not in your family business, nor at home and neither they will take care of you when you age. The incentives are not longer there.

You're probably not far off. Looking at data from lots of different sources makes it pretty obvious that as education increases for women that they have less children. If you're working it means less time for kids, putting off a family for work concerns instead. https://haven.downisontheup.ca/a37b6c...

Two income family’s make sit much more difficult. Also not having families live so close to each other reduces support networks which made it much more manageable to add each additional child.

Lots of women got lied too an were told children will hold back their careers… "Working is better then having kids" Probably a big reason here…

Feminism / boss babe career slaves Spiritual and ideological divides between the sexes Birth control pills Abortions Birth control Environmental and nutritional hormone disruption Fiat inflation making it more expensive to have many children Vaccines

Death by a thousand papercuts. But the rate of out of wedlock birth was lower at that time. People went into it knowing families will be inevitable, so it doesnt quite explain it. The primary driver is urbanization IMO.

Declining birth rates are directly correlated with housing affordability. People without stable long term housing are more likely to have abortions or more careful not to get pregnant in the first place. In 1960s a 16 year old could work over the summer school holidays and save up enough money t...