What happened to the fertility rate in China?

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i couldn't tell you in truth but i could make a lot of un-kind assumptions about them.

Just filling in the blanks here.

There are different reasons for men and women to stay single in Japan. Marriage and especially child-rearing in Japan is tough due to the many rules and expectations on children and parents, so many young men opt out of it to a) avoid spousal conflicts, b) keep their free time, and c) keep their money. Usually the woman takes charge of the moneykeeping once a couple gets married, and the husband gets a monthly allowance despite it being him earning the bulk of it. Many men hate this system so they avoid marriage in order to be able to spend their money as they like.

The women, on the other hand, would like to get married at some point and have children too, but for them it's usually due to either a) not finding the right guy (who tick all the boxes on the laundry list), or b) prioritising their career. Very few women can enjoy the luxury of returning to their job position where they left it if they have a child. Rather than sacrificing a good career for a crying infant, they avoid marriage altogether and indulge in the benefits of a successful career.

As for systemic discrimination against singles, yes, there are certain tax breaks for families that singles don't enjoy, but they're not very big. Even with the tax breaks working against them, the singles are still able to enjoy a richer lifestyle than if they had a child, assuming the same starting salary.

Source: Mrs. 1986.

Oh okay, I see. Are their anything men can do to keep some of the money during the marriage such as some kind of prenuptual contract or something like that?

One of them is lying.

For example, Japan has a system of giving out bonuses twice a year depending on work performance. The husband gets a bonus of 1,000,000 yen then tells his wife he only got 500,000. Later, he takes the remaining money, goes to a posh hostess club and spends it all on a champagne tower.

I'm surprised that the tradition of "wife managing money" still exists in Japan. After Japan has been industrialized for so long.
China has a similar tradition, where women in some backward regions ask men to pay large sums of cash when they get married. And generally, men need to have more assets when entering marriage, eg, a house.
Women reap more financial benefits from marriage while having more difficulty working independently, which made up a bondage for both men and women.

Oh I see. Well, even if less people are having kids in China, is that a bad thing, or is that a good thing, since they are so overpopulated anyway?

Please read other posts under this thread.

I have heard that Japanese women look more favourably on being single than men.
Is this correct?



Intelligent skunks see the wisdom of being single, in terms of finance, also.
I used to tell people that my investment houses were my children and that they made money, not debt.

It has been estimated that each child in Australia would cost more than a quarter of a million dollars to raise, until age 18.
Skrew that.

Well it seems it's not just China but lots of places all over the world. Could it be feminism that is the cause of it maybe it that seems to be a big reason why in North America?

Well it seems that people might take fertility rate seriously because in a conversation with friends, society could collapse with fewer children being had. Here is an article I read on it:

https://www.dw.com/en/why-taiwans-singl ... a-18617944

But if this is true and that the labor force will shrink to a very dangerous level, if more people do not start having kids, how do we encourage people to do so, if the threat of what will happen in 20 years, doesn't concern a lot of people today?

Another thing I was curious about, this whole notion that guys cannot trust women to be faithful if they have been with a lot of guys in their past... Do women think the same thing about men, since most women go for guys who have had a large number of partners?