re: Fertility rates drop to record low in 2023

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This is at least part of it but definitely doesn't make up for what seems to be a cultural reduction in people wanting kids.

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The easy one is the correlation with women joining the workforce and the rapid fertility rate dropping in the 1960s. It correlate perfectly.

But women in the workforce has been decreasing since the 2000s, but fertility rates have continues to decrease, despite a small uptick in the 1990s.

My opinion is that the cultural aspect began when women entered the workforce, which became engrained, and now we are simply seeing the cycle of up and down with economic cycles.