How is Japan in such a big pickle with the population shrinking. If an economy is based on a kids being born so they grow and sustain the aging population, how did Japan, a country known for their meticulous approach to everything, got themselves in this situation. For sure they must have seen it coming 20-30 years ago.
What went wrong? If they got it worn, how do we have it right? With the government not providing any kind of meaningful incentives for families to have kids, when will the 24th hour come for the rest of us?
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Sex is a recreational activity people engage in when they have time doing little else. For a long time winter would produce a lot of pregnancies because of the time spent together with little else to do. Summer was also common because it was neither planting season nor harvesting season.
A full year work cycle does not make romance easy.
Birth control reduces unwanted pregnancies.
Stress reduces the sex drive.
People come home tired, live poor, have little leisure time, don’t feel up to having sex, don’t have enough to support children. So they have fewer children on average.
It’s not just a Japan situation. Every nation with highly developed cities first filled the cities, and now need a constant stream of movement into the city to sustain the population. So the overall birthrate declines.
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