The modern woman cannot be treated as a baby making machine!

 Lower birth rates and falling fertility is a worldwide phenomenon. In Europe, France had the highest birth rate; the southern European countries – like Italy, Portugal and Spain – the lowest. South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are all very worried about population decline.

We can see clearly, looking at the figures, that in countries where women are responsible for most of the childcare and domestic work, then the less willing they are to have children. In Japan, many women are flat out refusing traditional roles. In Italy, where many men go back to their mother’s house to eat, women rarely have more than one child. Partners become an added burdensome awkward responsibility. Why would women want even more? In countries like Norway and

Sweden, where men help more with housework and childcare and there is less gender disparity, birth rates are not in such steep decline. Women do not have because of less  affordable childcare and flexible working practices. South Korea provides day-care, subsidize nurseries, parental leave and even cash direct to parents. Singapore gives parents cash bonuses for babies .

Once you have an educated female population, then women understand that having children is but one of the choices they can make. If having a child has meant they have to be confined to the home doing most of the childcare, they will often veto having another child. If there is little practical help from the state and men are not doing their fair share, then fewer babies will be born.