#fertility rates

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[stoppopulationdecline]

Meloni Focused on Tax Cuts Over Italy's Falling Birth Rate in 2024

As Italy confronts an impending demographic crisis and a collapsing birth rate, anticipation builds around its 2024 budget. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a proponent of 'traditional' families, doesn't champion family policies

As Italy confronts an impending demographic crisis and a collapsing birth rate, anticipation builds around its 2024 budget. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a proponent of ‘traditional’ families, is widely expected to infuse policies championing these values. Yet, initial insights into the budget reveal a discernible shift towards economic restructuring, seemingly sidelining crucial family support…

[revisesociology]

The global decline in fertility rates: causes and consequences

Birth rates are dropping almost everywhere. Two-thirds of the world’s population now lives in countries where the total fertility rate (TFR) – a measure of births per woman per lifetime – has dropped below 2.1, the number needed to keep the population constant.  According the to World Bank Open Data, the global TFR reached 2.3 in 2021; it will soon drop below the 2.1 replacement rate if it…

[minnesotafollower]

“Economist” Magazine Also Predicts Lower World Population

Last month this blogger was surprised to learn about forecasted declines in world population and the resulting challenges of coping with such changes.[1] And earlier this week this blogger was also surprised to discover that due to the aging and forecasted retirement of many U.S. primary- care physicians, the U.S. will need to recruit foreign physicians to move to the U.S. and practice here and…

[worldpopulationday]

The Promise of a Demographic Dividend (CPD57 Side Event).

Africa's youth population offers immense potential, with three-quarters under 35, creating a demographic dividend. Despite challenges like gender inequality and high fertility rates, family planning policies have begun to shape a positive demographic transition. National Demographic Dividend Observatories (NODDs) in seven countries are driving progress, producing vital data and tools for policymaking.

At this high-level session, the focus will be on recognizing NODDs' contributions, addressing challenges, and advocating for renewed commitment to harnessing the demographic dividend.

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Two point four children

Two point four children: my latest blog post on falling fertility rates and how I would fix it (spoiler alert, I probably wouldn’t…)

If you look hard enough, you can find conspiracy theories about pretty much anything you can imagine (and probaby quite a lot you cannot imagine as well, here’s looking at you lizard people!). While I am sure conspiracy theories have existed as long as humans have had society, with the coming of the internet they have really entered a golden age of semi-plausible nonsense. While each conspiracy…

[ai-azura]

EctoLife baby farm eliminates pregnancy and labor

EctoLife baby farm eliminates pregnancy and labor

Introducing EctoLife, the world’s first artificial womb facility. Powered entirely by renewable energy, EctoLife allows infertile couples to conceive a baby and become the true biological parents of their own offspring. It’s a perfect solution for women who have had their uterus surgically removed due to cancer or other complications. With EctoLife, premature births and C-sections will be a…

[andrasthehun]

My Questions for the Canadian Immigration Minister

My Questions for the Canadian Immigration Minister

November 5, 2022 The Minister announced yesterday that Canada will welcome 500,000 immigrants annually. He said the country needs to move up immigration targets because of the low fertility rate and a million vacant jobs in Canada. But, Mr. Minister, have you fully considered the costs of a sudden surge in immigration, and the impacts on healthcare and housing in Canada? Canada used to welcome…

[mapsontheweb]

Fertility Rate by US State, 2022.

[doctorcrusher]

I do find it weird the degree to which it seems to be a truism in leftish circles that the decline in the birth rate in the US is a result of poor economic conditions, and women would be having significantly more kids if only they had higher incomes or more purchasing power or more assistance from social programs. and ftr I think it would be obviously good for those things to happen in and of themselves. but like neither worldwide nor within the US is there a positive correlation between higher incomes and better standards of living and the fertility rate. it seems very silly to terminate any conversation about why American women are having fewer kids with "well they'd have more kids if the economic situation was better" when that seems just strictly extremely unlikely

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South Korea's Child Benefits: Increased to 29.6 million won ($22,100) over 8 years starting 2024

South Korea's child benefits are ramping up to address its critically low birth rate. In 2024, a range of expanded benefits will be available for families, totaling 29.6 million won ($22,100) for a single child over eight years

Quick Take: South Korea’s child benefits are ramping up to address its critically low birth rate. In 2024, a range of expanded benefits will be available for families, totaling 29.6 million won ($22,100) for a single child over eight years. Key Measures: The “First Encounter Vouchers” program provides immediate financial support upon a child’s birth, offering 2 million won for the first child…

[ahamkara-apologist]

Do you believe Lightbearers are changed biologically from before they became Lightbearers?

Can't believe I forgot to answer this- I genuinely thought I did until I was scrolling through my inbox and saw it pop up again. Oops.

Anyways, my headcanon is that yes, Lightbearers are biologically different than non-Lightbearers- they become so when their ghost is rezzing them for the first time. During the first rez, their bodies are essentially restructured to better suit being a vessel of Light, with far greater phsyical resiliance, capacity, and overall durability being granted as a boon from the Traveler so that they're not torn to shreds when using even the most basal abilities. Even Lightless, they're still much stronger than a baseline human, they cannot age (their telomeres simply do not degrade and their DNA repair kit becomes more accurate, so they don't incur the gradual DNA loss/nonspecific remedies that lead to the maladies of old age), and they're still paracausally sensitive, even if their conduit for channeling the Light has been cut. Outside of the never-aging and paracasal-sensitivity thing, the effect isn't drastic, but they are still noticibly hardier than a person who'd never directly touched the light of the Traveler would be. Eris, Zavala, and Osiris could be beaten by a sufficiently strong mortal in an arm wrestling contest, for example, but they're all able to learn to use Darkness/walk off injuries with an ease that a Lightless mortal cannot.

After the first rez, additional permanant change is possible, but it requires either paracausal alteration (such as wounds created by Darkness, wounds that were earned and began healing in a no-light zone, or subconcious paracausal alteration, where the Guardian's own body rejects the touch of the Light), or deliberate ghost manipulation. I like to headcanon that by using the Light in much the same way that they would heal, Ghosts can learn to tweak parts of their guardian's bodies to be altered to their liking, which is a method by which transitioning post-rez occurs, in the instance that one was not an exo or did not medically transition before death. It's extremely delicate, but all they have to do is use their bond and the Light to go 'hey, you're missing something, you need to make more of this hormone or grow more of this tissue to fully heal', and bam, gender transed :) This fully depends on the skill of the ghost, however, so its a slow process even if it can theoretically lead to a full transition over time, and certain tissues can only atrophy so far before they need to be cut off. In the case of exos, all the ghosts need to do is block the mental disconnect between the body alterations and the perception of what those should be, and that's about it

[reality-detective]

The global TFR has more than halved over the past 70 years, from around five children for each female in 1950 to 2.2 children in 2021. 🤔

[greenboi]

a step back does not equal failure

[y-rhywbeth2]

Things Lolthite dogma demands at least one death for:

Praying to her

Not worshipping Lolth

Not following her dogma faithfully enough

Following her dogma to the letter

Daring to question a single word of dogma or the command of a priestess

Loving somebody

Killing or harming spiders

Being born amab when your parents already have two of those.

Existing whenever the whim takes Lolth and she decides it'd be funny to see you get murdered. Like, she spins a wheel and the options are stuff like "make into chosen", "kill", "turn into a drider". What are you going to get? Who knows!

She basically just wants to watch the Hunger Games 24/7.

"The Spider Queen is the subject of terrifying legend among most surface dwellers and seen as virtually synonymous with the greatly feared drow. In the Underdark, she is a well-known evil, hated for the cruel power of her priests by dwarves, svirfneblin, and other races. Few elves are even willing to dis- cuss their deep-dwelling kin, let alone the dark goddess who is blamed in large part for their depravity and for leading them into evil. Only the dark elven priests of Eilistraee are even willing to discuss the Spider Queen, and their fury at her enslavement of their kin exceeds even that of the other elven subraces. Lolth is hated and feared even by her most devout priests; they vener- ate her for the power she provides, not out of any sense of affection or loyalty or principles."

If you're making this shit legal, you have no grounds to be complaining about Bhaal.

But Baldur's Gate prides itself on its tolerance of everyone and everything, so they allow both of them and just tell them to keep the murders directed at people who are easy to sweep under the rug!

Between this and how insanely entrenched and empowered the police force is, nobody should be surprised that Gortash managed to take over and start installing a police state: you handed the city over to Bane on a silver plater.