@amerika @EJM77 japan is an interesting case for me because the perennial problem they have with child rates (which most countries do really) is not due to some hikkikomori problem or race science or whatever opinion columnists have to say these days - it's that it's a neoliberal hellhole and people's economic rationale heavily disincentivises drowning yourself in the incredibly expense that having a child turns out to be

if governments want kids, the solution is dead easy, and it involves a *more* intervening government