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    1 year ago

    That’s the incorrect way to read this. Rather, people are spending more on their children, and people without children are seeing average cost of raising children.

    Effectively, the standard of living for children is going up and people who feel they cannot hit that standard of living are (in Japan’s case especially) opting not to have them.

    I assure you that poor people are still having children that survive.