Comments by "Lucas Fernandez" (@LucasFernandez-fk8se) on "Will the Fertility Rates in Europe Rise Again?" video.

  1. Once Nigerian society acknowledges that men can get pregnant but don’t due to misogyny then the Nigerian birth rate will fall to western levels
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  2.  @somjrgebn the suburbs do prop up our fertility rate. When you live in a 3600 square foot home and all your neighbors have children then you’re more inclined to have 2-4 kids. If you have a 4 bed you’re likely to have 2-3 kids. A 5 bed is likely to have 3-4 kids etc. one child per bedroom minus a possible guest room or home office is the norm in the US. Only expensive coastal regions like SoCal and the north east break from this norm. Even on Long Island and New Jersey this is the norm. Usually the lower fertility areas are in poor school districts like southern Los Angeles since the parents don’t have the money for private schooling. Good schools increase fertility among white and Asian parents since they don’t have to pay for private school per child
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  3. I always wanted my parents to have a 3rd. We grew up in a 4 bed and it would’ve been nice to have another sibling growing up imo. Americans have such a low fertility rate 😩. Every household was a 2-3 child household growing up. Sometimes you’d get 4 kid households but I think due to the severe shortage of 5 bedroom homes until the mid 2000s our fertility rate was artificially lowered. Now that the 5/3 is taking off the home prices have ballooned so now young people can’t even buy a cheap 5 bed 3-4 bathroom home anymore 🙄. We need to normalize home offices so that people will stop making their 4th and 5th bedrooms home offices instead more of kids bedrooms. People need to have a kid per bedroom and then our fertility rate would be fixed
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  4. Unless you’re living in a mansion this won’t raise fertility. If you live in a 4 bed house let’s say and you have 3 kids that’s a positive fertility rate. Where as if you and your cousin and your partners live in a 4 bed home and each have a child then the birth rate went from 3 kids per couple to 1 child per couple
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  5. We need to tax Childless women 40% of their federal income, deduct 10% income tax for every biological child they have and raise. Let sperm donation purchases be a tax write off for lesbians. Let surrogacy be a tax write off for gay men. Add 5% federal income tax for every abortion a woman has had. This allows them to get unlimited abortion but it punishes them for the evils of abortion. Make divorce a “get out what you brought in” system so men will marry the women and let men get the woman’s tax break ONLY if he marries her. So instead of divorce being women gets the kids, women gets the house and money. It will now be she gets 30% of the home value if she paid 30% of the mortgage, he gets both cars if he paid for both vehicles, she gets 60% of the 401k if she put in 60% of the finances in the 401k etc etc. everyone gets what they put in and custody is 50/50 for the parents In divorce. This will keep families together longer and ensure anglosphere men don’t avoid marriage anymore. Women will want to get married because they will be taxed out the wazoo and they’ll see their married friends with luxury homes and luxury cars while they’re in a studio apartment barely able to feed themselves at 23. 10% tax deduction per child. Aka a mother of 3 and her husband pay 10% income tax instead of 40% (up to 400k a year) or a mother of 1 pays 30% income tax. A mother of 4 pays no income tax upto 400k a year. It’s the perfect solution, childless women are a HUGE burden on the welfare system in every country. They also are crashing the birthrate which pays for their welfare. This fixes that and solves both. Also get rid of social security so people have kids as a retirement plan
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  6.  @steph6109 nah. Just tax childless women 40% and take off 10% per child. Men get to benefit from this too but only if they marry the woman. Women should be taxed higher than men due to their higher use of social services. If they birth 4+ children they pay 0% federal income tax and their husband pays 0% federal income tax. 25% decline in income tax per child. We will suddenly see a bunch more 3-4 child families if we do this. Guaranteed. And don’t give unmarried women a tax break if they’re a single mom. This will encourage them to get married and have 4 kids since their standard of living will increase 40% if they become mothers
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  7.  @deborafernandes1026 when were you last oppressed by men? Also if you have kids at a sustainable birth rate and teach them gender equalitarian values then no you won’t be oppressed by men. But if you choose to be a single childless career woman then yeah ya might end up destroying gender equality
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  8. It was SUBSTANTIALLY easier to have children in the 80s. Reganomics led to a boom for the middle class and upper middle class, mcmansions were cheap and families earned more, under bidenomics home values have DOUBLED since the pandemic. Cars and rent have DOUBLED, food is up 30% and inflation is up 30%. Wages are up 8-10%. We can’t afford even what we had under trump. Let alone what you boomers got under Regan
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  9. The time when everyone should’ve had kids was the 1990s and 2000s. Low home prices, low taxes, higher average salaries and a booming economy should’ve lead to a birth boom. It lead to it going over 2.1 in 2007 but it crashed when Obama ruined the economy. In 2024 America it’s the hardest to buy a home for young people since the 1930s
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  10. Well to be fair there are just SO SO MANY old people . And their opinions are all worthless. The old adage of “respect your elders” came from a time when the elderly were RARE and when the elderly had useful advice. The elderly today are COMMONPLACE and their advice is terrible. It’s always 40 years out of date and when we don’t use their advice they call us entitled and lazy. Yet they’re the ones who ruined their advice. I’d love to walk into a hiring managers office, shake a hand and be paid a living wage. That’s super easy. Now people have to masse apply for jobs and hope they get a few interviews 🤦‍♂️
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  11. The true ideal is a forever 2.1 birth rate with no dips and no increases. Maybe a 2.2 birth rate so that we always have more consumers and more engineers to make society more economically efficient. But a big raise or dip isn’t ideal. The issue is we need a huge spike to counteract 50 years of sunken birth rates
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  12. Yea not in my family. My dad said he wanted 4 and my mom chose to only have 2. His father also wanted 4 yet they only had one due to his mothers mental illness. The truth is that men tend to want more kids unless circumstances are bad or unless the wife wants less. I want 4-6 so hopefully I can afford that tbh. The issue is it’s expensive for gays to have biological children. I did at least find a boyfriend who also wants a large family like that. Tbh I think women want less kids on average because it hurts their tookies in pregnancy or because they think they’re doing more labor than they really are raising the kids. My mom for example thought she was raising the kids all by herself (stay at home mom while dad worked late hours to provide) but really the TV and the internet raised me and my sister while she napped 🤷‍♂️. Sometimes the perceived hardship of raising children is a mental block for women having more 🤷‍♂️
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  13. Bruh South Korea is screwed. By 2035 South Korea is probably gonna have a birth rate of like -1 births per woman (where every woman murders an average of 1 living person) with the way things are going
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  14. The anglosphere has a very strong suburban culture. Once a couple settles down in the suburbs it’s very culturally expected they’ll marry and make 2-3 babies. Even gay and lesbian couples are now being expected to have 2-3 kids in suburban areas. The anglospheres suburban culture is its strength for our birth rate. We need more suburbs though and wider freeways and more new freeways so that we can facilitate this. Currently they’re destroying the suburban culture by building apartments and making walkable urban cores. This takes away from the “get married and have baby” culture we have. Instead it promotes the “sex and the city” lifestyle of childless SINKs living it up in the city and girlbossing it. This is problematic since these women never deliberately have children and rarely marry
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