1/3 of women < 44 have no children and the trend is rising. What is causing it?

It seems like, if you actually want to investigate this question, you would want to add data on: - how does this vary by country - how does this vary by income (relative to median for that country) - how does this vary by religion<p>Probably other things, but at least those. This graph doesn&#x27;t even say what country (or group of countries) it is about, as far as I can tell?

Interesting that all the replies to the tweet are from men

Rise of fascism? Housing crisis? Looming environmental disasters? Unaffordable health care, education, while wealthy people shoot themselves into space?

Career over family

My reasons:<p>- it&#x27;s painful<p>- it&#x27;s expensive<p>- it&#x27;s a drag<p>- culture war stuff (who wants to deal with school issues, medical issues, community issues, etc.?)

Turns out, actually having to give birth is kind of a drag, even in the best of conditions, and women who realize they have a choice in the matter are more and more likely to nope right out of it.<p>Or at least nope out at levels less than the current 2.1 children needed for replacement levels.

For us, there&#x27;s just too much money taken off our wages to guarantee long-term safety and stability for even a single child. And wage increases barely touch that: The leftover amount is almost constant over a factor of 2 in income increase.

other than to ensure a cheap exploitable workforce, who cares? Why is it a bad thing?

I believe the question is asked backwards. We should be asking why people decide to have kids in the first place. And it is not that easy to answer this question.

Ultimately, not attractive enough in whatever category. For some reason, you MAANGs are oblivious to how desirable those company names and salaries are to women... Just too demure, I guess.