Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters

Talking about “996” culture in China (working 9am to 9pm, six days a week), Cavendish quotes one guy: “Not only do I struggle to find time for reproductive behaviour, but I also can’t find a reason to have a baby who will eventually grow into another human labourer for capitalists to exploit.” And then another: “The entire situation is incredibly depressing. I feel like a cow surrounded by breeders who are discussing whether to play Mozart or Chopin to make my meat more tender.” Whatever you feel instinctively about the drive to have children being outside the rational, homo economicus self, it’s hard to really argue with those…

 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/17/spermageddon-greedy-jobs-and-abject-fear-why-birth-rates-are-plummeting-and-why-it-matters 

 

This woman dated only far-right men for a year: ‘They were so insecure’

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Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children? - The New York Times

"It's not about being selfish and saying, 'I'm not having kids because I want to sleep in all the time,'" Dr. Guzzo said. "When fertility rates are down, to me, that's because people don't feel like they have a future that they feel confident in."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/health/fertility-births-vance.html

Study Shows that Over Half of Urban Renter Households Experience Some Form of Housing Insecurity | The Heller School at Brandeis University

A new study by Heller PhD candidate Giselle Routhier shows that the majority of renters in 25 U.S. metropolitan areas experience some form of housing insecurity. ....
https://heller.brandeis.edu/news/items/releases/2018/giselle-routhier-housing-insecurity.html