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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
So parents in the 2020's only have children if they can afford all sorts of extracurricular activities.
Got it.
So eventually the working poor will breed themselves into extinction.
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Fertility rates are declining steeply in Canada. And fertility rates correlate with income. So like marriage, having children is becoming a marker of class.
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Poorer Canadian women have much lower expectations of children in the near future. This points to a vitally important reality: childbearing in Canada is becoming more associated with wealth than it is in other countries, and than it was in Canada in the past, as poorer women face difficulties manifesting their family desires. Poorer Canadian women don’t want, don’t intend, and aren’t having as many children. This is reminiscent of the growing inequality in marriage. Lower-income Canadians are less likely to marry than are higher-income Canadians. These points may be related insofar as marriage is correlated with higher fertility.
https://www.cardus.ca/research/famil...having-a-baby/
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