[ExI] From the baby boom to the baby bust

[efc at swisscows.email]

Hello Adrian,

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024, 5:31 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>       What I find very interesting, is why fertility rates are falling. Is is
>       medical, cultural or both? Probably both, and if so, what's the medical
>       reason?
> 
> One possible solution is political: pro-natalist funding that
> consistently and substantially offsets and/or lowers the cost of child
> raising.  Universal state funded daycare, for example.  Your mind's
> ear can probably already predict the howls of outrage from certain
> sectors, who claim to be about "family values" (and in practice mean

I'm not so sure. Sweden has free university and heavily subsidized
daycare and health care and has very low fertility rates. 2023 the nr of
births per woman in sweden was 1.45. That number is a record low.

I think what you suggest is not the entire answer, at least not when
looking at swedish society and the trend of birth rates.