A demanding work culture could be quietly undermining efforts to raise birth rates - research from China shows that working more than 40 hours a week significantly reduces people’s desire to have children.

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Birth rates are declining worldwide, while dog ownership is gaining popularity 🐶. Study suggests that, while dogs do not actually replace children 👶, they may, in some cases, offer an opportunity to fulfil a nurturing drive similar to parenting 💖, but with fewer demands than raising biological offspring.

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Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children.

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Moving away from organized religion appears to be linked to declining birth rates in modern societies. An analysis from Finland reveals that a drop in state church membership is associated with the continuing trend of couples having fewer children.

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👶 Research from Finland suggests a link between declining organized religion and falling birth rates. The study, published in Social Science Research, analyzed data from 1995-2019 and found that couples where both partners were church members had the highest rate of having children.

💰 The analysis revealed that the birth rate among state church members remained higher than non-members throughout the study period, and this gap widened over time. When partners were religiously unaffiliated, birth rates dropped sharply.

📈 A counterfactual simulation indicated that the loss of church membership accounted for a measurable portion of the decline in couples having their first child. However, researchers note secularization is only one part of a larger picture, with economic uncertainty and shifting personal preferences also contributing to global fertility decline.

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Scientists thought “intensive parenting” was driving down birth rates. They found the exact opposite. Adopting highly demanding, child-centered parenting attitudes is associated with a stronger desire to have children.

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