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Japan’s New Government Wants New Baby Boom
Japan is facing a demographic crisis – and Japan’s new government is hoping for a baby boom. Here’s an AFP report:
5 Responses to “Japan’s New Government Wants New Baby Boom”
Simple – stop acting like it's natural to model one half of the population to be “masculine” and “feminine” depending one what suits society the most. To keep pathetic patriarchal cultural mores while also imposing a competitive market economy on people will -surprise!- lead to women actually caring a little about themselves for once.
Compare Sweden to Germany – in Germany kindergarten openings are rare, and the welfare state isn't geared towards providing mothers with services needed to balance motherhood with work. In Sweden things are different and nativity is higher. You see it in Iran, Italy, Japan, Nothern Africa etc. – patriarchal societies are troubled with low nativity. Which is good, since such societies are bad and need a kick in the shins to awaken.
Would you consider Canada a patriarchal society? Didn't think so. Their fertility rate is 1.57. So, I wonder whether a country is “patriarchal” is the only factor at play here.
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I can't blame Japan for wanting a baby boom, their population is aging to a dangerous degree.
They could have a great number of people working and living in Japan, but the government actively discourages permanent immigration. If you marry a Japanese person, you are allowed to stay and work in the country, but if the spouse dies, they kick you out for not being Japanese.
Population aging and below-replacement fertility plays hell with the future dependency or government-beneficiary-to-taxpayer or retiree-to-worker ratio. And, of course, Japan's political and cultural situation makes “replacement migration” of additional workers from elsewhere (i.e., foreigners) even less feasible than here in the USA or in Europe (whose problems will be worse than the USA's, too).
Oh, well. “Surprise” (to some)