Let's see how long it'll take politicians, public health officials, and legacy media to figure out what could possibly drive this decline--as well as 10% excess all-cause-mortality
Communal state-run kindergartens became the norm for two reasons here:
One was simply social engineering, to ensure every chid growing up shares and believes as natural and true the values imposed by the state and the party (as the Socialist Democrats was and still is virtually the same as the state).
The other was the capitalists and the state wanting to double the available exploitable and taxable work-force, propagandised as liberation of women.
Adding to that, the tax code was changed from taxing a household as a unit of economy to taxing everyone individually. You don't have to be an economist to see how this is what destroyed the possibility of family life.
I'd say it's an iron law that all democratic capitalist systems develop into corporatist demokratur.
A government employee was on the radio here in Puerto Rico talking about a reduction in birth rates. Her sole concern, based on her statement, was that it was bad because it meant fewer funds from the U.S. to support our corruption--I mean, systems.
The fact that the reduction could point to a possible health issue wasn't even on her radar.
Not much Vikingness left in them, they all dream now of becoming machines!
I started to point at young women's bellies and ask how that happened, I would get a blush and smile, never an answer. Until one lady became visibly upset, so I stopped.
I can't recall seeing a pregnant lady here of late, a sign of my growing reclusiveness I suppose, but maybe not.
Communal state-run kindergartens became the norm for two reasons here:
One was simply social engineering, to ensure every chid growing up shares and believes as natural and true the values imposed by the state and the party (as the Socialist Democrats was and still is virtually the same as the state).
The other was the capitalists and the state wanting to double the available exploitable and taxable work-force, propagandised as liberation of women.
Adding to that, the tax code was changed from taxing a household as a unit of economy to taxing everyone individually. You don't have to be an economist to see how this is what destroyed the possibility of family life.
I'd say it's an iron law that all democratic capitalist systems develop into corporatist demokratur.
A government employee was on the radio here in Puerto Rico talking about a reduction in birth rates. Her sole concern, based on her statement, was that it was bad because it meant fewer funds from the U.S. to support our corruption--I mean, systems.
The fact that the reduction could point to a possible health issue wasn't even on her radar.
The monthly birth figures do not seem to be publicly available. From Moody's (https://www.economy.com/norway/births) I get:
12869 for the first quarter
13289 for the second quarter
13760 for the second quarter
The article mentions 48133 until November, and 3543 in November, which means 4672 in October.
This is happening everywhere. It's been declining globally, but there was a dramatic drop in live births globally from 2021 onwards.
So with declining births, aging populations, where do all the workers come from....🤔🤔😐😑
Love the “In short: stop complaining, grow up, and do things” paragraph. I can’t imagine leaving my baby with someone at 2 months.
Not much Vikingness left in them, they all dream now of becoming machines!
I started to point at young women's bellies and ask how that happened, I would get a blush and smile, never an answer. Until one lady became visibly upset, so I stopped.
I can't recall seeing a pregnant lady here of late, a sign of my growing reclusiveness I suppose, but maybe not.