I find most explanations of the West's suppressed fertility to be marginal or mythological. (Leftist explanations don't count as such at all.)
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Maternal age greatly affects fertility and quality of offspring. Progressives pushed later marriage as empowering. You're right in that there is an effect from making the deal worse for most men. There are multiple causes. https://twitter.com/moritheil/status/1053720668116783104 …
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The killer point is that later marriage immediately followed late-marriage propaganda. Again, an ill attributed to vague 'modernism' is in fact due to specific enemy action.
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Modernism is the result of enemy action, yes. - The universal white male suffrage movement of the early 1800s was snowballed by other progressive agendas and resulted in universal adult franchise. - The Communist Party agenda of the 1920s is almost entirely law today.
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- Going back further, the destructive conceptualization of marriage as romantic love/soul mates rather than a traditional arrangement to exercise the duty and obligation to bear and raise children was the work of bards in the 1500s.
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Making it an obligation is also wrong.
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What I'm saying is that a corrupt political/ideological arrangement resulted in a reaction, which, being reactionary, was simply corrupt in the other direction.
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AFAIK it was considered a duty for thousands of years, as well as just "what you do." Prior to that the science of having babies was not well understood. Are you saying there was a point where people understood procreation but it was not a duty or obligation?
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