Nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen bekommen Frauen weltweit weniger Kinder als je zuvor in der Geschichte. Im Jahr 1960 hatte eine typische Frau fünf Kinder; heute liegt die durchschnittliche Zahl bei 2,2. In vielen Teilen der Welt, einschließlich den Vereinigten Staaten, liegt es weit unter dem Niveau, das zur Erhaltung der Bevölkerung erforderlich ist.
Wir haben Jahrzehnte damit verbracht, über Politik, reproduktive Rechte, Sucht, ländlichen Niedergang und vieles mehr zu berichten. Wir wollten verstehen, warum die Menschen in den meisten Ländern deutlich weniger Kinder bekommen als ihre Eltern und Großeltern. Wir haben mit Frauen und Paaren von Chile bis zu den griechischen Inseln gesprochen, um ein Bild von den Kräften zu zeichnen, die diese persönlichen Entscheidungen prägen, und von ihren weitreichenden Auswirkungen auf die Zukunft.
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We're Sarah McCammon and Brian Mann, correspondents with NPR. For nearly a year, we’ve investigated why global birthrates are falling, and what that could mean for our future. We’re interested in how millions of individual decisions are reshaping the economy, climate, politics, and more. AMA.
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Are there similar concurrent declines in the animal population? If there are not similar declines now is there a precedent for this from other times?
Are you going to talk about late stage capitalism, how we’re all trapped in debt, there are no more third spaces and that this all could have been avoided? If not, I’ll pass. If so, count me in.
I doubt you’ll actually talk about anything really important because NPR is funded in part by Amazon and other corporations. You benefit from late-stage Capitalism—which is a direct cause of the current socio-economic climate.
People don’t have the financial means let alone the time and resources to have families. Families require financial support. Families require you to actually have a work life balance. Wages don’t allow for it. Work hours don’t allow for it. Corporations and capitalism are at fault. And moreover, the planet cannot sustain what we have. So what took a year to figure out?
In the course of your reporting, have you found a clear generational divide on this topic? I.E., should people feel any obligation to reproduce for the sake of grandparent wannabes, or the future workforce, or to keep funding retirement for previous generations?
I am the Gen X parent of a Millennial who will not be having children (and sought surgical sterilization at 30), and I support this decision 100%. How can anyone question this when cost of living has outpaced wages, billionaires and hedge funds are buying up everything they can so they can extort the populace, we have devolved into fascism and authoritarianism, and climate change will cause real crises across the globe?
Yeah I can’t see NPR getting too close to the actual target on this one. Instead we’ll get a few “look over there!”s reinforced by some cherry-picked and creatively-presented data
Its not affordable to have kids and everyone is being replaced with A.i we know why its happening.