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Frequency of sex is declining in Finland since the 2000s, according to an ongoing 50 year study. The sharpest decline has been shown for 30-40 year olds who are down to once a week as the average. Sexperts downplay the importance of the findings. The results are based on the FINSEX research project that has tracked the subject for decades.
How is the situation in your country?
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Not recommended for children.
(Score: 1) by bitstream on Sunday March 06 2016, @04:02AM
It's more or less a requirement to have a good education in industrialized countries. And to get a stable economy a permanent job position is also a requirement. To deviate from this is risky economically. So if there's is a genuine interest in keep a sustainable population demographics. The government would need to guarantee the economy and healthcare for young couples that make children. Perhaps something akin to "you get what you pay for" thus no children. And Finland is just like many other well of European countries one with high taxes. So the government can and need to be involved.
Either one pay young couples to reproduce or face the consequences. No freebies! Another factor at play is higher industrialized automation which requires less people so perhaps depopulation is in fact sustainable to a degree. Having kids and doing education and work must also be easier or lest people will shun the whole deal. And while at it, make it way more attractive for highly educated and professionals to produce children so that it won't bias people that have nothing better to do than just reproduce and not care for their children.
So the combined effect of hard education, tough housing and work market, and a dysfunctional social maze puts (young) people off from making children. It's simply doesn't make the cost/benefit calculus for many individuals to work out. What the government(s) has at their hands is an crowd sourced answer to if making children makes personal sense. And importing people that can't reach up to high school level and behave in a highly developed society won't fix the problem. It will aggravate it severely.