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Originally Posted by Dondilion
Not only carrots: Ideology is needed to de-energize the thought that moving on up is overwhelmingly more important than children.
An intrinsic love of children needs to exist and the ever lessening of the unease/queasiness re abortion works against such love.
Probably in the future an increase in robots and a useful guaranteed basic salary will make the coming of children less threatening.
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Most people have a much greater intrinsic love of children once they are here, than they do when they are just a possibility. Before the pill came into existence, the female sex drive assured the move from possibility to actuality happened often enough.
I'd focus much more on the pill than on abortion as the change that has made the big difference here. Much bigger impact on birthrate, I think.
Income security ought to be good for birthrate, I agree. (Or bad, depending on one's attitude towards birthrate. There are those who like the idea of population decrease, don't forget.)