Fertility Rates in the North East

People are having fewer children- why do you think that is? Do you think society is making people think twice about having children?

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00:00I think there's it's easier to get contraception now I think there's

00:04probably better education but also it's just so expensive I think people can

00:07afford to have as many kids women are like less at home and more yeah

00:12doing careers yeah pretty much the same thing you know women getting out more

00:17more jobs opportunities moving up in life you know it's good things people

00:23talk about the long-term trend of quality of living and how as that goes

00:26up fertility rate goes down the desire to have children goes down and that's

00:29countries having to do things like introduce incentives like in Germany and

00:33I believe Japan and other places because I think being online affects as well I've

00:38heard that so lack of physical social contact can drastically decrease the

00:42number of dates people go on and also a lot of modern relationships come from

00:48online dating this is all information I've heard and I don't know the

00:51statistical values behind it it's hard to say how much of a problem it is and the

00:58steps that would be taken to fix it