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Originally Posted by djmk
there are 11 million baby booomers in this country. they makes up about 30% of our entire population. The older ones are now in there early 70s. In about 10 years, they will start dropping like flies.
France works very hard at achieving a high birth rate and they are sitting around 2 birth per woman which is nowhere near high enough.
A million immigrants a year and perhaps the population will be stable which is frankly impossible.
I don't want to sound to paranoid, but hold crap this is not good. I would love to see a universal child care program, however, we won't be able to afford it once the boomers require medical attention.
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Yeah we're relying on young immigrants for our population and our social security system is stretched thin as it is as we take care of druggies, mentally ill, homeless, and seniors. We're also deliberately killing some of our economy in an effort to improve affordability which means tax dollars likely won't be increasing. We've also locked up government labour with unions meaning it would be difficult to ever reduce government or cancel projects. At what point do we say the government has to stop footing the bill. In the end I strongly believe in cleaning up your own mess, if I choose to have a kid I should pay for it.
I think birth rate increases are a cultural problem. This is going to sound weird/wrong and I'm not saying I support anything here only giving a logical viewpoint (so keep an open mind until the end please) but we've promoted abstinence too much. We're also anti polygamy (which produces the most kids), anti young marriage (which also produces more kids), and pro college/university (which distracts people from the best ages to have the most kids). We've also banned paid surrogacy which would more easily allow people to have kids while working or busy. We've also pushed women out of the house and into the workforce which has reduced a woman's desire to have kids or get married. We're also pro LGBT which sounds great but generally does not produce kids. Morally/ethnically these moves may have been great, but realistically they have hit some of the biggest sources of kids. We've also concentrated our population in urban centers which reduces kids as rural families tend to have more. In the end, its the immigrant families that have the most kids as they retain their home culture while Canadians are not having enough kids.
Rather than say we need more social support for people having kids so people can afford them. I would say its simply that people are less into having kids than before because they don't want them and our culture is now anti-children. If you look at countries where feminism is weaker, that are less open to LGBT, where polygamy is legal, where the age of marriage/consent is less, etc. they tend to have a lot more children per a person. And of course we're importing people from these nations.
We have one short-term solution which is to import people. And one long-term solution which which is to have a cultural revolution and change our culture to one that is more supportive of having children.
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