women of child bearing age

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TruthOnTrial · 24/12/2019 13:48

and breathe!

What a breath of fresh air to hear normal, simple facts of life, without any qualifiers or caveats.

Just that, simple, and life is easy. Women of childbearing age, - in relation to japans falling birth rate; despite efforts to increase the birth rate on last year it has fallen.

What simple and straightforward reporting from the bbc, for once.

How else can you say it.

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CatintheFireplace · 24/12/2019 15:55

a common graduation present from parents to daughters is double eye lid surgery Jesus, that's awful

Fraggling · 24/12/2019 15:53

If women decide en masse not to have kids, men won't like it, governments won't like it, and I don't like to think what the reaction might be.

1Micem0use · 24/12/2019 15:51

It might be for Japan.
I'm more knowledgable about the situation in it's near neighbour South Korea.
There's a new feminist movement among women in their early twenties and thirties who are actively choosing not to marry, or have children. This is also usually joined by a choice to not wear any makeup and to cut their hair short, as a protest against the countries rigid beauty standards. Think the english translation for the movement is burn the corset or something along those lines.
We're talking about a country where a female news reporters decision to wear glasses instead of contact lenses was national news, photographs are requested on the CVs for all job applications, and a common graduation present from parents to daughters is double eye lid surgery.

Sprinklemetinsel · 24/12/2019 15:37

The article I heard was the number of babies born in Japan this year was the lowest ever. Impacted by the number of women of childbearing age.
There have been more significantly more deaths than births.

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TruthOnTrial · 24/12/2019 15:27

I thought it was the birth rate was down, as in less than 1.9 average per woman, but I may have not heard that they were counting the numbers of women as part of the issue.

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Sprinklemetinsel · 24/12/2019 15:09

The reason given in this morning's news, @1Micem0use, was that there are fewer women of childbearing age rather than that they were choosing not to have children- though they may be.

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TruthOnTrial · 24/12/2019 15:00

Its awful, but maybe children shouldn't be brought into a patriarchal, mysogynistic society.

Perhaps the planet can be all the better for far less population, and heal. I mean everywhere not just there. Here too, its not fair to bring children into.

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1Micem0use · 24/12/2019 14:21

It'd be good to have a discussion as to the feminist reasons why women of child bearing age are choosing not to marry and not to have children in East Asia.
It's a big issue in neighbouring S Korea too, where I lived for the last 2 and a half years. The average child per woman ratio is less than one.
S Korea has a rigidly patriarchial society and women are discriminated against in the workplace if they choose to have children. There's also the unequal division of domestic labour and childcare on top of that. The expectation that children will need to be sent to.expensive hagwons. A lot of keeping up with the Jones's in a saving face culture.

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