DINKs, Double Income No Kids, is a Western concept. Working couples are aspiring to live a more independent & luxurious life instead of having kids. But this can spell ruin for India's demography.
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In India you are in 10% of income if you are earning 25000 per month and 1% of net worth if you have a problem of 1.5 crore. This means most of the middle classes are forming only 1% of India’s population of 10% of India’s population based on how you calculate. And yet, we cannot fighting for resources like good education, healthcare and roads. I am a young married women and I am super scared to bring a child into a world with intense competition. More than the pressure that an additional human would put on the world, I am scared of what would the world do to my child. Pollution is all time high, food is adulterated and we are on the verge of an irreversible environmental change. Plus competition to get into a decent school is too high. Why should anyone put through themselves and their child through such difficult situations when 90% of our population is languishing? Markets have failed the 90% percent and now also failing the middle classes. We have seen that neither too much government interference not completely free market works. Because the greed of a few is ruining the world. Why bring another human to this troubled world? Even if socially and economically we recover someday, but how about the irreversible environmental damage? I work in the environmental sector. I understand the nuances very well. I am holding hope against hope, and striving to make the world a better place. But I can’t agree more with people if they decide not to have a child. I understand their fears as well.
High educational costs and low job and livelihood prospects for educated people are the pivotal factors for educated couples especially educated women to make this decision of keeping no kids or only 01 kid.
Not by 2042, but way before that this population is evident.
But this reduction is not homogeneous in all categories, of population, like specific region is still producing more children.
Typical article by someone brainwashed by Western economic theory of ‘demographic dividend ‘, that treats everyone as a producer and consumer. It’s past time that Indians stop making babies and focus on improving their quality of life. Indian cities are now overcrowded hellholes with people living in filth, squalor, pollution and what have you. There is no reason to bring children into such a milieu, unless one hates children. Time to stop running a constant rat race and start smelling the flowers. There are just too many Indians on the planet. Let Indian women do better than just becoming baby making machines.
This perspective offers a fresh take on population growth, diverging from common apprehensions. It highlights the potential benefits, notably the abundance of youthful wealth in our nation, emphasizing the significance of human resources as per economic principles. Recent observations in China and Japan underscore the economic strains resulting from declining youth populations and aging demographics, prompting initiatives to incentivize childbirth. Concerns about education and resource allocation for future generations are valid, urging governments to prioritize education and healthcare to foster quality citizens. Cultural values of love and sacrifice should outweigh imported anti-natalistic ideas, guiding policy evaluations and corrections.
Creating some sensational news out of already-known information! When we are expected to reach 170 Crore soon, no need to create a fear of population decline. Better advice would be to start imparting education and eliminate illiteracy among women. This is the job of the State Govts which most of them failed to do.
“Educated Women are finally taking charge of their bodies and lives by carrying consensual, healthier and lesser pregnancies which now sees India with a Maternity Mortality Rate below 100 and lesser female suicides due to pressure and oppression from family.”
In times like today, where us women are fighting each day for better educational and professional opportunities, where it is a struggle to hold our stand against certain societal pulls, it is odious to see articles like this, titled like this, at one more attempt to throw a dig at women that are building themselves out of the controls of the society and being more. The youth that you’re talking about, which is taking the country to greater growths, also comprises of us young women, in the same demographics, that are capable of doing it by investing enough time and energy on their careers just like the men, who thus opt for single or no pregnancies which again is consensual with the husbands in lieu of their careers but you would definitely find it convenient to headline your article with how educated women and their decisions for their bodies and lives causes reduction in population for a clearly overpopulated country, struggling on all four of its limbs to suffice through the resources for the already residing population.
This is a fresh perspective different from the usual opinions which always seem to be afraid of population growth. It also brings into focus the positives of population growth, especially the amount of youth wealth that our country has. After all, we all studied in economics that human resources are one of the most important.
Recently I had read articles about China and Japan where declining youth population and increasing old age population is raidly putting strain in those countries’ economies and how they are trying to incentivise birth.
The concern about less educated children seems valid too. Then our country will have to put in more resources to develop people. It is the govts responsibility to develop quality citizens through education and healthcare, that is how the country progresses after all. If what the country did for one generation is not paying dividends in the next, policy should be seriously evaluated and mistakes should be corrected. It is not the woman’s fault or a man’s fault that they fall for an anti natalistic idea, mostly imported from the west. Our values has always been about love and sacrifice and that should get greater prominence in our present generation too.
This is a very strong and stupid opinion on the current demographic situation. The information being imparted by this article is wrong in so many ways and so many levels. The article is titled in a way that blames women’s education for the declining population. Declining population is not a bad thing at all, do you not see the number of people begging on the road or living on the streets? The country does not have enough resources to provide for everyone.
Instead of asking educated women to have more children, educate the uneducated women to have less of them. And yes, the population growth rate of India has recently reached stability, population decline still has a long way to come.
The opinion piece is written from an elitist point of view and has a very regressive tone. People should have absolute control over their own fertility choices and it is the responsibility of the state to adapt to changing demographics. And the state is itself the collection of its people! The demographic dividend comes at the cost of many women who are forced to ‘sacrifice’ their own choices in many spheres of life as there is yet a to be any signs of an gender equitable society in our country.
In India you are in 10% of income if you are earning 25000 per month and 1% of net worth if you have a problem of 1.5 crore. This means most of the middle classes are forming only 1% of India’s population of 10% of India’s population based on how you calculate. And yet, we cannot fighting for resources like good education, healthcare and roads. I am a young married women and I am super scared to bring a child into a world with intense competition. More than the pressure that an additional human would put on the world, I am scared of what would the world do to my child. Pollution is all time high, food is adulterated and we are on the verge of an irreversible environmental change. Plus competition to get into a decent school is too high. Why should anyone put through themselves and their child through such difficult situations when 90% of our population is languishing? Markets have failed the 90% percent and now also failing the middle classes. We have seen that neither too much government interference not completely free market works. Because the greed of a few is ruining the world. Why bring another human to this troubled world? Even if socially and economically we recover someday, but how about the irreversible environmental damage? I work in the environmental sector. I understand the nuances very well. I am holding hope against hope, and striving to make the world a better place. But I can’t agree more with people if they decide not to have a child. I understand their fears as well.
High educational costs and low job and livelihood prospects for educated people are the pivotal factors for educated couples especially educated women to make this decision of keeping no kids or only 01 kid.
Not by 2042, but way before that this population is evident.
But this reduction is not homogeneous in all categories, of population, like specific region is still producing more children.
Typical article by someone brainwashed by Western economic theory of ‘demographic dividend ‘, that treats everyone as a producer and consumer. It’s past time that Indians stop making babies and focus on improving their quality of life. Indian cities are now overcrowded hellholes with people living in filth, squalor, pollution and what have you. There is no reason to bring children into such a milieu, unless one hates children. Time to stop running a constant rat race and start smelling the flowers. There are just too many Indians on the planet. Let Indian women do better than just becoming baby making machines.
Ok so together let us all increase the population
This perspective offers a fresh take on population growth, diverging from common apprehensions. It highlights the potential benefits, notably the abundance of youthful wealth in our nation, emphasizing the significance of human resources as per economic principles. Recent observations in China and Japan underscore the economic strains resulting from declining youth populations and aging demographics, prompting initiatives to incentivize childbirth. Concerns about education and resource allocation for future generations are valid, urging governments to prioritize education and healthcare to foster quality citizens. Cultural values of love and sacrifice should outweigh imported anti-natalistic ideas, guiding policy evaluations and corrections.
Educated couples. Not women.
Creating some sensational news out of already-known information! When we are expected to reach 170 Crore soon, no need to create a fear of population decline. Better advice would be to start imparting education and eliminate illiteracy among women. This is the job of the State Govts which most of them failed to do.
“Educated Women are finally taking charge of their bodies and lives by carrying consensual, healthier and lesser pregnancies which now sees India with a Maternity Mortality Rate below 100 and lesser female suicides due to pressure and oppression from family.”
In times like today, where us women are fighting each day for better educational and professional opportunities, where it is a struggle to hold our stand against certain societal pulls, it is odious to see articles like this, titled like this, at one more attempt to throw a dig at women that are building themselves out of the controls of the society and being more. The youth that you’re talking about, which is taking the country to greater growths, also comprises of us young women, in the same demographics, that are capable of doing it by investing enough time and energy on their careers just like the men, who thus opt for single or no pregnancies which again is consensual with the husbands in lieu of their careers but you would definitely find it convenient to headline your article with how educated women and their decisions for their bodies and lives causes reduction in population for a clearly overpopulated country, struggling on all four of its limbs to suffice through the resources for the already residing population.
This is a fresh perspective different from the usual opinions which always seem to be afraid of population growth. It also brings into focus the positives of population growth, especially the amount of youth wealth that our country has. After all, we all studied in economics that human resources are one of the most important.
Recently I had read articles about China and Japan where declining youth population and increasing old age population is raidly putting strain in those countries’ economies and how they are trying to incentivise birth.
The concern about less educated children seems valid too. Then our country will have to put in more resources to develop people. It is the govts responsibility to develop quality citizens through education and healthcare, that is how the country progresses after all. If what the country did for one generation is not paying dividends in the next, policy should be seriously evaluated and mistakes should be corrected. It is not the woman’s fault or a man’s fault that they fall for an anti natalistic idea, mostly imported from the west. Our values has always been about love and sacrifice and that should get greater prominence in our present generation too.
This is a very strong and stupid opinion on the current demographic situation. The information being imparted by this article is wrong in so many ways and so many levels. The article is titled in a way that blames women’s education for the declining population. Declining population is not a bad thing at all, do you not see the number of people begging on the road or living on the streets? The country does not have enough resources to provide for everyone.
Instead of asking educated women to have more children, educate the uneducated women to have less of them. And yes, the population growth rate of India has recently reached stability, population decline still has a long way to come.
With over 170 cr population, resource crunch…we are still talking this
The opinion piece is written from an elitist point of view and has a very regressive tone. People should have absolute control over their own fertility choices and it is the responsibility of the state to adapt to changing demographics. And the state is itself the collection of its people! The demographic dividend comes at the cost of many women who are forced to ‘sacrifice’ their own choices in many spheres of life as there is yet a to be any signs of an gender equitable society in our country.