You can pause!

Actually totally good point. I’m going to chuckle at the situation regardless because it’s funny. But I agree with you overall.

I wasn’t blaming “the men”, it’s just a fact that the side effects were severe enough to not continue taking that birth control. And it’s also true that side effects aren’t as much of a factor in women’s birth control because pregnancy is worse than those side effects.

I even agreed that the main reason was:

because it would cost some rich assholes money, they purposely keep the situation as is.

I just expanded on it.

Pardon?

This is awesome! Thanks for the link :)

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It is more difficult, but still worth working towards it.

As if there’s only one way to be strong lol

Yeah that’s like totally a valid option for the billions of couples out there.

Just stop having sex, you silly women! Duh!

I’ll add a caveat that one should take a look at daycare costs and such in their area first. There is a real financial setback that having kids can bring that shouldn’t be ignored if possible. There’s only so much money that cancelling going to concerts and brunch can offset things like daycare.

I say this as a parent as well.

Just providing more info to go along with the graph :)

Thanks for not being an ass about it lol

Assuming that the situation is as simple as that is foolish at best and does not adequately explain collapsing fertility rates in poorer demographics.

I agree that it would be silly to assume that the only correlation with fertility rates is GDP. There’s obviously going to be many factors that affect fertility and birth rates.

There’s a lot of people that assume that the birth rates will go up with income which isn’t true at all. That was what my commentary was pointed at more than anything.

local entertainment in my city is easily $100 a night now. For few hours.

Jeez, the local bands in your area must be LIT to be charging that much.

On any day of the week, one can find open mics, local bands, comedy shows, etc from locals that are usually free with a drink in my city and neighboring cities. @TwilitSky@lemmy.world was simply suggesting the popularity of these types of entertainment may rise as everything else gets more expensive. They weren’t even saying it’s popular again NOW as you clearly interpreted.

Oh they’ve been pushing for that in the US for sure. What do you think abstinence only education is for?

More teen pregnancies.

The decreasing relationship between the two variables demonstrates the connection between fertility choices and economic considerations. In general, poor countries tend to have higher levels of fertility than rich countries.

In particular, women tend to give birth to no fewer than three children in countries where GDP per capita is below $1,000 per year. In countries where GDP per capita is above $10,000 per year, women tend to give birth to no more than two children.

This decreasing relationship between fertility and income is well known to economists and demographers alike. In addition, it holds true over time: Rich countries, such as the U.S., have experienced a remarkable decline in their fertility rate as they became rich. Also, the relationship holds at the individual level, as rich families tend to have fewer children than poor families.

This statement is from the same place as the graph pictured above.

It seems pretty directly linked with the availability of choices for women.

Anecdotal, but partner and I have put off having children multiple times due to affordability, IE who can take that much time off work and still pay food/rent costs?

You are lucky enough to have the choice to put off having children.

That’s not going to happen on its own. They’d rather force women to bear children through criminalizing miscarriages and abortions and reducing access to birth control.

Women with money have more options and choose to have fewer children.

That’s why they’re trying to criminalize abortion and reduce access to birth control.

Women with higher income have more options for sure.

My go-to for this is Stardew Valley