More young people in South Korea consider marriage, childbirths as nonessential

Waiting for a bunch of people to show up and make a big thing about how the earth can support billions more, up to 100 billion or something.

They weirdly seem to show up every time someone suggests that either we should stop growing or maybe even shrink for a while.

Well, my family is doing our part. We went from 8 people three generations ago on my dad's side to just one. My wife and I had one son. Everyone else on that side of the family had no children.

My family is definitely an outlier... There were a lot of DINKs and so-called urban professionals who decided not to have kids. Honestly it feels kind of weird now that my parents are in their '70s, as Holidays are now just my wife, my son and myself. We don't have a family to have a reunion with.

sounds of thousands of Christian conservative pearls getting clutched