Comments by "the other Andrew" (@theotherandrew5540) on "Are childless people a problem?" video.

Having worked for many years with fostered children and others with family problems, I STRONGLY recommend, if you don’t want children, DON’T have them. To grow up into healthy happy people, children need happily devoted, loving parents. Nothing will change for the better so long as our society promotes Work, Profit, fat Incomes over child care. Shovelling small infants off to nurseries is no the answer. Children need their parents and parents need society to support them to nurture their children. Breeding children to fill a gap created by our profit oriented society is certainly not the solution.
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@keithfallinghorse6732 Thank you.
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@TheBigBlueMarble In the short to medium term, immigration can easily solve that problem. In the longer term, society is probably going to have to go through some painful readjustment as the global population declines.
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@TheBigBlueMarble In the short to medium term, births significantly exceed deaths in most developing countries. Emigration relieves pressure on their social systems while immigrants can provide the rich, demographically imbalanced countries with needed and tax paying labour.
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@jabiraidan You have of course identified finance as a key problem, thus my reference to the need for support, financial being primary. It’s not possible to remedy or alter one part of societal problems alone, as all aspects of society are connected. WRT selfishness, this is also connected to social pressures and attitudes; when life is less of a struggle people are less selfish.
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@mylesleggette7520 quite so. Most modern societies value material wealth over children.
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@JohnPretty1 Yes, which is we’re the state should be providing adequate financial support, indicating it values children.
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@milferdjones2573 We already have too many humans consuming the resources of the planet including other nonhuman inhabitants, the ecosystem is badly out of balance. As the climate changes and limits the habitable space, the human population also need so shrink. Contractual obligations to rear children are absolutely not the way to go. Society needs to support those who choose to take care of children, and should enable family members and others to do so. Universal Income would be a significant help. Of course women are able to make similar contributions to society as men do, the care of children she similarly valued. But you can’t have your cake and eat it. Care of children doesn’t coexist with continuing a career away from the children.
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@milferdjones2573 I think you may have a good point about delayed childbirths. While the care and development of old ten children has been traditionally carried out by the grandparents generation, there can be no substitute for mother in the infancy.
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