“Notably, Chang’s report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and marry and have children further down the line.”

(…)

“The report does not include evidence of any correlation between female students’ early enrollment and the success rate of their romantic relationships with men. The author also does not detail specific mechanisms by which his proposed policy would increase romantic attraction or birthrates.”

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    How does that fix anything? You keep some parts of the world as human breeding mills and send them to the places where quality of work/life balance is so bad that they can’t have kids there either?

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      No, at some point the human population won’t be able to increase forever and as conditions are improving in poorer nations their birthrate is decreasing, I’m just pointing out the obvious, immigration is the solution to birthrate problems in some parts of the world and it’s the solution to overpopulation in other parts.

      Heck, that’s exactly what multicultural countries are doing, it’s an issue with Asian countries that refuse to welcome people of other cultures.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        22
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        the human population won’t be able to increase forever

        Just gonna point out that this isn’t a problem.

        • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          15
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          5 months ago

          I would argue it is a problem in a capitalist society where constant and eternal economic growth is necessary.

          Then again, I would also argue that capitalism is the problem.

          • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            5 months ago

            Correct. If the masses benefitted from industrialization rather than just the corporations, we could have a high quality of life for everyone, population growth be damned.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          Never said it was, but it’s ridiculous to think it’s normal to let certain territories become empty out of nationalistic pride when people are suffering out of lack of resources in other territories.

      • bean@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        Just to chime in. I was interested to randomly see in my feed the other day about how divorce between an American husband and Japanese wife, is at a lower rate than is between Japanese citizens.

        I found it interesting that some cultures might be slightly more compatible with each other.

        Anyway.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          5 months ago

          Not surprising, Americans living in Japan don’t tend to adopt the crazy work schedule that’s considered normal over there.