Birth rates fall to all-time lows in Japan and South Korea

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/28/birth-rates-fall-japan-south-korea/

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bbkpr@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They're forced to work 12+ hours a day, every day, if they want to get anywhere. I wonder where the time to find a partner and have children is supposed to come from?

UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

For Japan. For Korea, women are just rejecting men because they're falling into more gender rolled ideologies. Can't get pussy if you don't treat women with respect.

csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 12 pts · 2y

Two countries where circumstances are such that people would rather not have kids, especially women as it often means the end of their professional career