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Originally Posted by Columbine
Frankly I find your reasoning offensive. Women's liberation may have prompted a move towards smaller families but it is absolutely NOT the sole cause of the modern declining birthrate, and it's disgustingly narrow minded of you to pin the whole problem on women alone. Have a good stare at the nearest man (or yourself) and consider this; male impotence has rocketed in the last decade or two, due to a combination of bad habits and exposure to modern chemicals. Also more men expect their partners to work in order to be 'marriageable' and are less inclined to adhere to their OWN traditional gender role.
As for Japan, the low birth-rate has less to do with the freer role of women in society and the fact it is incredibly impractical to have a big family. It takes a long time to establish enough of a career (for either gender) in order to afford to marry, dating behavior is more prolonged with modern couples and so people marry later and even if they don't marry, people are having kids later in life compared to decades past.
Unlike other countries abortions are more available (albeit expensive) and there's no religious slur against aborting unwanted pregnancies. Japan has small houses so having a dozen babies is often a terrible idea, and it's incredibly costly. If a woman marries and has kids, she may lose out on income if she chooses to stay at home and then struggle to get full-time regular employment again, so couples can go from two people on two reasonable incomes to three or more people on less. As the cost of living in some areas is high, this can be a point of real concern for some families. It's particularly hard to be a single parent- there's a slight stigma against it, unless you're bereaved or divorced, and again the financial situation is difficult, so women in that situation have more incentive to abort than keep the child. Of course, some wouldn't take that route. There's no real drive for men to have big families or women to have a lot of children, so people don't.
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Oh, save me with that garbage
Feminism is DIRECTLY responsible for the declining birth rate in western countries. Men responsible? Oh please. You may think impotence may be contributing, but the fact is men don't want to marry women who act like men.
Feminism is responsibly for the free sex its ok to be a skank movement women have been on for the past 20 years. It's basically removed the stigma for women to sleep around like men. Yeah, it's fun for guys for women to slut themselves around, but NO guy wants to marry this type of women or have kids with them.
Also, I'm not some male chauvinist or anything, but if women want to work I'm perfectly fine with that and most men are. But we do appreciate a female with female qualities and females who want to take on female responsibilities. Biologically females are the ones who take care of the young and take care of the family with the resources the man brings up (money or supplies). We don't want am aggressive woman who works 12 hours a day pushing and shoving her way to the top in an attempt to "bring home the bacon". Sorry not that's not a feminine quality.
Sorry but it's the sad truth.