Die StatCan-Umfrage untersucht, warum Kanadas Geburtenrate weiter sinkt

Can’t even afford a bottle of KY Jelly anymore. Simple as.

>“This strong decline in fertility is due not only to a decreased birth rate, but also to an increase in the number of women who do not have children either by choice, by circumstance or because they are delaying motherhood,” the agency said.
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>“In fact, the average age of mothers at the birth of their first child has been increasing in Canada for decades.”
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>In 2024, that number reached an all-time high of 31.8 years. Although women are, on average, having their first child later in life compared to previous generations, StatCan’s data suggest that most women of childbearing age in Canada want to have children eventually.

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>“These results show that fertility does not depend solely on individual preferences, it also reflects complex socioeconomic and cultural factors, particularly for women under the age of 40 years,” the agency said.
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>“They also show the importance of policies that encourage balancing career and parenthood.”

Why would I want to have a child in Canada when we have record youth unemployment and instead of prioritizing Canadian workers, our government makes it easier for companies to bring in cheap foreign labour? What kind of future would that child have? Parents want their children to have a better quality of life than what they had but the Canada I grew up in no longer exists.

We should be incentivizing population growth from within rather than trying to import our way out of this demographic cliff – but our masters see things differently

-Young people can’t affort housing

-Young people can barely afford rent

-Young people can barely afford food

-Young people can’t afford to go out

-Young people can’t afford education

-Young people can’t get jobs

-The jobs young people can get don’t pay well

-Young men can’t afford to pay for dates, which dries up the dating market

-Young people can’t afford to get married

*insert „who killed hannibal“ meme, guy shooting the other dude in the chair, and wondering who could have done this*

Idiocracy is turning out more and more to be a prediction instead of a parody, and somehow people are still surprised.

There are factors such as access to birth control which plays a big role in this.

But it also needs to be noted that millennials are really the first generation in a long time where both parents HAVE to work.

I was born in 1993, my dad worked at a factory and my mom stayed at home. We had a decent middle-class life. Simply put, that’s nearly impossible to do now.

My fiancé and I want a family. We’d have 5 kids if it were viable. But we both work, and things are still tight. None of us want to come home after a long day and still need to do chores, run errands and now add raising a child in the mix.

If it were viable for her to be a SAHM, that’s what she’d want to do, she’s explicitly said so. But it’s simply no longer an option, so kids have been delayed. We’ll be lucky if we have one.

Quality of life would be objectively better if one parent could comfortably support a family while the other stayed (doesn’t matter which gender). Not only does it make having kids more viable, but typically a stay-at-home-parent takes care of the household stuff as well – chores, errands, cooking, etc. it’s a full-time job too.

People need to be able to afford to have children. Young families often cannot afford the expense of having a child, let alone the childcare costs or the extra living space required. We would have loved to have had more children, but it was a struggle financially to even have one, and once we were financially stable enough to be able to afford to have more, the clock had run out on that possibility.

If we as a society want to have a birth rate above replacement, we have to support, encourage, and incentivize young families to have children.

Let me think.

Young Canadians are being priced out of the housing market, barely afford groceries for themselves, and being screwed in every way possible?

But hey, atleast the TFW and PR people get what they want.

Honestly, I think birth rates have been plummeting since women entered the workforce. I have trouble enough juggling a full time job and everyday life without adding kids into the mix. Why would I put more on myself when I’m already exhausted?

Canada „Our women aren’t having babies, oh no!“

Also Canada “ We expect people to live in small units, pay rent and work to death so there’s no time or space for family.“ 

As a mom of two

having kids is now a luxury likely.

Can’t possibly be my 3700$/month mortgage for a fucking townhouse

Lower population isn’t bad. The earth can only support so many.

Also, many people probably shouldn’t have kids. There are so many parents who do not have the empathy or intelligence to care for a rock never mind a sentient being.  It’s good more people think about the consequences of children to this planet and themselves.