Social Issues - Changing strict rules about married names could potentially raise Japan's rock-bottom birth rate [1] - Hardliners argue that changing the rules would confuse children and loosen family bonds [1]

“USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years”Elon Musk https://t.co/aONTPzkQoa ...

Elon Musk“There's a baby crisis. The birth rate has plummeted. The birth rate in the United States has been below replacement rate since roughly when I was born, in 1971. That's a long time. And it's continued to decline every year.” https://t.co/MogjkyiiJl ...

Elon Musk: “It appears that, when civilizations are under stress, the birth rate is high, but as soon as they have no external enemies, or they have an extended period of prosperity, the birth rate inevitably drops.” https://t.co/dE1P1MO4AK ...

People who have kids do need to have 3 kids to make up for those who have 0 or 1 kid or population will collapseMario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal):HUMANS NEED 2.7 KIDS PER WOMAN TO SURVIVE... WE'RE NOT EVEN CLOSEScientists now say 2.1 kids per woman won’t cut it - 2.7 is the real number needed to avoid long-term extinction.Right now, the U.S. is at 1.66, and most rich countries are even lower, including Italy at 1.29 https://t.co/FF4Y9pVVRd ...

RT vittorio (@IterIntellectus)people keep saying that birth rates cannot be fixed, but birth rates aren’t collapsing by accident.they collapse when a civilization systematically convinces its people to avoid reproduction culturally and spiritually, and sterilizes them, chemically.this isn’t a mystery. it’s a design failure (or success). and it can be reversed. ...

Elon Musk“My recommendation really would be, do not delay having a family, even if things are tough.There's a baby crisis. The birth rate has plummeted. The birth rate in the United States has been below replacement rate since roughly when I was born, in 1971. That's a long time. And it's continued to decline every year.” ...

America's fertility rates are hovering around historic lows, with approximately 1.6% births per woman over her lifetime. This is below the level needed to sustain the population, which is 2.1% births per woman. We're actually projecting that about 1 in 4 young adults today will never have kids.There are plenty of us out there who are kind of concerned about the falling birth rate, both for kind of its impact on people's ordinary lives, as well as for the ways in which it will affect our economy and our gove ...

[Music] Japan is having fewer babies than ever [Music] before. Meanwhile, the number of very elderly people is at a record high. This year brings the country to a tipping point known as the 2025 problem with Japan's huge postwar baby boom generation now all in their mid to late 70s.When it comes to living with a shrinking and aging population, the data clearly shows that Japan is ahead of other countries, but also that its path isn't unique, and neither are the potential solutions. So, the rest of the world ...