21 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 3 Mar \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
Tough question. I would say that the Japanese are predisposed to marriage and child-rearing. It’s in their DNA. Young people kinda get freaked out about not settling down by a certain age and go for matching parties.
However, more and more young Japanese find that being connected to others is troublesome. This explains the weird trend of people getting married to their sex dolls. I think there could be many reasons why people shun from establishing connections. Work is tiring, they wanna have their own time to do their stuff, some people are in sexless and/or weekend marriages.
I think overall the Japanese are not optimistic about the future of their country. Which explains why they don’t want to bring another human being into this earth.
Yes, Singapore was colonised by the U.K before. Sharp eyes!
Yikes, none of that sounds great.
The explanation that I'd heard centered on the idea that traditionally Japanese women are expected to end their career in order to raise children.
The hypothesis continues that modern Japanese women neither want to end their careers, nor want to buck tradition, so they largely choose to be childless in order to follow their career.
I can't remember where I'd heard about this hypothesis. I wonder if it's based on fact.
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Yes it is true. I covered it under “they wanna have time to do their own stuff”. Stuff meaning advancing in their career or fulfilling self-actualisation needs like travel.
Well birth rates are plummeting all over the world, not just Japan
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