The demographic crisis is widespread in the first world. fewer states of civilization's “west” enjoy the tranquillity of generations' replacement prospects. Governments form political programmes 1 by 1 to reverse this trend and support fertility. However, economical benefits have small effect. According to Luka Lyman, any amount of money can be allocated to social benefits for parents without any effect. The aversion of the young generation to parenting is the consequence of the crisis of civilization.
In 2023, the birth statistic in the United States were at the lowest level in history, with the consequence of a 1.62 kid per woman. This origin reached the bottom of past in Poland besides – falling to a shocking level of about 1.16. Children are in a dire state in all western countries, and in no EU country the minimum required is 2.1 for each family.
The reason why young people are reluctant to grow their families is seen in their interior condition, convincing English-speaking firstthing.com publicist Luke Lyman. "Most Millenians have no aversion to parenting, they are indifferent to it," says a writer who is eager to address the issue of parenting. "All trends indicate that the measures taken to shake them out of this indifference are insufficient," he points out.
A akin message was made late in the loud work of 2 writers: Anastasia Berg and Rachela Wiseman. In their book “What Are Children”, women stressed that the dislike of fertility was the consequence of cultural changes, “Children's Millenials usually advance materially rational explanations of their decisions, referring to economical burdens and insufficient state support. Bergman and Wiseman begin by revealing that specified answers are only a smokescreen. The problem is not primarily economic," relates their position Luke Lyman.
"Millennials are fundamentally in the same financial position to start a household as all erstwhile generations. And if the Nordic countries prove anything, there is small evidence that the social benefit infrastructure will lead to increased birth statistics," adds the publicist.
Thus, the authors are convinced that the fresh doctrine of life is the origin of youth’s reluctance to parent. According to women, the waning childhood is simply a manifestation of the general “reconfiguring of the value that touches all spheres of our lives”. 1 of its expressions was the clear message of the feminist community against motherhood.
The traces of this anti-natalist trend are seen, among others, in Simone de Beauvoir's work, which in her celebrated work "Second Gender" sought to separate femalehood from motherhood as a condition for emancipation. Berg and Wiseman point out that this attitude is what makes modern women look for life fulfillment in the labour marketplace and everywhere outside motherhood, which they consider to be the end of their own autonomy.
According to Lyman, the authors should be credited for pointing out the function of feminism in promoting aversion to fertility. In his opinion, however, this diagnosis remains insufficient. As he emphasizes, not only motherhood, but besides paternity is little and little popular today. The deepest sources of the crisis must, in the opinion of the publicist, be sought in the overall crisis of marital relations – to shift it from a procreative direction to a completely different track, as well as the inability of young generations to make sacrifices pending long-term success.
Sources: firstthings.com, infocatolica.com
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