I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country.
before that it was commonplace though. I’m 61, my grandmother started having her kids at 16, she had 8, one of them my mother, the youngest of her kids. Many of her friends were similarly 15-19 having thier first kid. My mother was 19 with me, I was born when she turned 20. She had 3 kids, i have none, my sister none and my brother 2, so family dynamics have changed.
This is Australia though, you can read books of some of the early convict ships coming over and they arrived with all the 13-16yr old girls pregnant, or having had their kid on board and being married etc
You can see some of the effect in The Philippines, pregnant teen mothers are everywhere. Religious indoctrination in regards anti contraception doesn’t stop teens fucking (and this in a nation with no divorce)
lots of child care support in Nordic countries and still low birthrates.
If women have a choice i.e they can self support (work) if needs be and not be gas lit, they’ll mostly choose 0,1 or 2. That’s not enough to grow a population. That and contraception that separates sex from birth.
Look to Hungary, no incone taxes and all sorts of benefits and still a low birthrate. I can see them changing the law to punish women (financially) who don’t but they’re in the EU so they can say fuck u and move :)
I’m a guy but it makes sense to me, why would a woman do years of study want to be mostly birthing kids every other year for a decade or more ? career, travel, saving and investing etc are much harder if you have a quiver full, let alone the impact on your body, so we’re back to 0, 1 or 2 and a declining demographic.
For every woman who decides on 0, you need another woman to decide to have 5 to basically stand still in terms of demographics, and the only ones doing that are religious nutters.