Dense housing did not prevent families from having children prior to the 1950s. It's really a matter of affordable housing and expectations. While I know families that have two children in a bedroom in bunk beds in a luxury condo in Manhattan, the reality is that there's an expectation that each child will have their own room. And housing prices are a major issue. It's hard to have children when a one-bedroom apartment goes for $4,500 per month. The other issue with cities is the sorry state of public education. Purchasing a home at over $1,000, a square foot and spending upwards of $50,000 a year per child on private education, prices out large families even for those in the 1%. Manhattan and San Francisco are extremes, but this is an issue in many of our cities and even many suburbs. Five decades of inflationary policies and a failure of conservatives to fix public education or implement school choice have National effects.
That's part of it, no doubt. But it's awfully telling that most American women say they want to have larger families...but wait to late for that to be biologically possible.
Culture is lying to them. There's a reason the religious have much higher birthrates in most countries.
Nearly all of us are victims of overcrowded environments. Our quality of life is constantly declining, adding more people to solve the ‘problem’ makes our lives worse.
But the population is set to fall and even crash in many countries.
China will turn 13 people into only 5 people before the primary school children now reach old age. They already have about 80 million built empty houses/units and another 126 million partly built in ghost cities.
The birth rate in all Western countries is way below replacement levels. EVERY woman needs to have 2.1 children with our current low infant mortality rates to achieve a stable population.
Take out all the lesbians, career feminists, the vaccinated sterilised and those who think they can have a perfect husband then get married at 40 but will find they are too old to be fertile.
The Singapore govt had ads, for a 1st child, a woman at 35 has a 35 % of infertility due to declined fertility. By age 40, 65% are too old and are infertile.
Peak fertility for women starts to decline after she is 19 or 20.
Our society lies and tells women to get an education, get a job, then work then get married later, but later is often too late.
Many women having their 1st child after age 40 have had IVF AND had a donated egg. It is not their biological child but this is not discussed so most don't realise.
My wife had IVF. The hormone treatments to stimulate the body to grow and release ova for collection, then fertilisation and hopefully implant are dreadful. As I left for work she was crying every morning because of the hormones. Then if the ova are implanted and nothing happens AGAIN, the disappointment. The $ expense is vast.
We gave up after 3 treatments ,she said she couldn't go through it all again. Then later we had a healthy son eventually after much prayer. A wonderful gift to our lives.
Dense housing did not prevent families from having children prior to the 1950s. It's really a matter of affordable housing and expectations. While I know families that have two children in a bedroom in bunk beds in a luxury condo in Manhattan, the reality is that there's an expectation that each child will have their own room. And housing prices are a major issue. It's hard to have children when a one-bedroom apartment goes for $4,500 per month. The other issue with cities is the sorry state of public education. Purchasing a home at over $1,000, a square foot and spending upwards of $50,000 a year per child on private education, prices out large families even for those in the 1%. Manhattan and San Francisco are extremes, but this is an issue in many of our cities and even many suburbs. Five decades of inflationary policies and a failure of conservatives to fix public education or implement school choice have National effects.
All yes. And as to housing density, we address this issue (dos and don'ts) here:
https://www.rodmartin.org/p/the-inadvertent-one-child-policy
Finding the root cause is key. Microplastics and many other things are behind this, including the bioweapon released on us (all purposeful imo).
https://www.theepochtimes.com/synthetic-mrna-suppresses-immune-system-possibly-leads-to-cancer-blood-clots-fertility-issues-spontaneous-abortions-dr-malone_4434571.html
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/infertility-a-diabolical-agenda-chd-wakefield-documentary-who-vaccines-global-population-cola/
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/depopulation-of-taiwan
In their own words https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/they-really-do-want-to-reduce-the
That's part of it, no doubt. But it's awfully telling that most American women say they want to have larger families...but wait to late for that to be biologically possible.
Culture is lying to them. There's a reason the religious have much higher birthrates in most countries.
And...not killing babies in the womb would probably help.
NO KIDDING!
A woman friend about 25 years ago said she and her husband had been wanting children for a couple of years.
When she finally got pregnant the doctors 1st comment was to tell her she could have an abortion!
Nearly all of us are victims of overcrowded environments. Our quality of life is constantly declining, adding more people to solve the ‘problem’ makes our lives worse.
But the population is set to fall and even crash in many countries.
China will turn 13 people into only 5 people before the primary school children now reach old age. They already have about 80 million built empty houses/units and another 126 million partly built in ghost cities.
The birth rate in all Western countries is way below replacement levels. EVERY woman needs to have 2.1 children with our current low infant mortality rates to achieve a stable population.
Take out all the lesbians, career feminists, the vaccinated sterilised and those who think they can have a perfect husband then get married at 40 but will find they are too old to be fertile.
The Singapore govt had ads, for a 1st child, a woman at 35 has a 35 % of infertility due to declined fertility. By age 40, 65% are too old and are infertile.
Peak fertility for women starts to decline after she is 19 or 20.
Our society lies and tells women to get an education, get a job, then work then get married later, but later is often too late.
Many women having their 1st child after age 40 have had IVF AND had a donated egg. It is not their biological child but this is not discussed so most don't realise.
My wife had IVF. The hormone treatments to stimulate the body to grow and release ova for collection, then fertilisation and hopefully implant are dreadful. As I left for work she was crying every morning because of the hormones. Then if the ova are implanted and nothing happens AGAIN, the disappointment. The $ expense is vast.
We gave up after 3 treatments ,she said she couldn't go through it all again. Then later we had a healthy son eventually after much prayer. A wonderful gift to our lives.