Russia’s dwindling birth rate has been one of President Vladimir Putin’s main worries during his 25-year rule and with Moscow having sent hundreds of thousands of young men to the front in Ukraine over the last four years, the problem has only worsened.
They should send them to economists instead. So the economists can learn why people dont have children.
True. These people seem determined to find some reason why people are not having kids while ignoring the reason that is staring at them in the face.
Don’t forget about the climate and the overpopulation
How are psychologists going to address ending unnecessary wars, closing the wealth gap with higher taxes for wealthy/no billionaires, and better prospects for the next generation than dystopian garbage fire island?
Does giving one of your patients bad advice to improve the lives of all your other patients break the hypocratic oath?
Asking for a psychologist.
You gotta bloom where you’re planted.
Right meds will surely do the trick. If not, a lobotomy will work.
So women will just lie, and Putin will get the rose tinted predictions that never materialize
Russian Politician: “We’re going to implement a nationwide psychological health care system [evil]”
Russian Treasury: “That’s going to cost money”
Russian Politician: “Just tell psychologists to do it for free.”
Russian Professional Association: “Now nobody wants to be a psychologist.”
Russian Politician: whispering to state security service
sound of Russian Professional Association getting thrown out a window
Hang on you’re telling me all the people worried about “demographic collapse” are just racists that discount a lot of people (especially immigrants) when doing their projections?
Kurgezant me shocked!!!
Saying “ethnic Caucasian family lines” in the context of Russia is very different from what you think it means.
Terminology from the nineteenth-century ‘scientific racism’ theory needs to die.
No one is required to have children. Being a parent is a choice. And it’s ok to decide not to have children. If people are pressuring you to have kids, tell them they are free to continue to procreate.
It’s not a choice in Russia, apparently.
Just watch them be the next to implement a “one-child” policy, but instead of a maximum it’s a minimum.
sure it is.
you can have kids.
or, you can–hey that’s neat! take a look out this fourth story window!
So the old rivalry is back, only instead of a space race, it’s a race to implement the Handmaid’s Tale.
an enslaved workforce doesn’t just birth itself you know?
Russia and the red parts of America in a frantic race to implement the Handmade’s Tale.
russia is pretty much further along. china currently is trying to “encourage more sex” in thier population too.
A story about a DIY fanatic who builds their own furniture?
Putin must be mystified as to why women don’t want kids. He probably sits in his $300 million Dacha on the Black Sea to think about it.
on his 760million megayacht, and 1bn+ palaces.
Considering this is an issue that’s affecting many countries, I expect to see this here in the US soon, too.
It’s not real, is a racist boogyman.
Are you referencing the great replacement theory?
Yes, that’s what all this demographic collapse fear mongering stems from.
It’s actually really easy to support an aging population, you allow immigration.
That just bolsters my point that the US will probably be enacting similar policies.
russia’s case is more severe in that they have a severe alcohol problem amongst the population, plus lack of replenishement since ww2, and of course sending any and all males to die in ukraine+ the ones fleeing russia. much different from places like korea, china and japan where people are overworked to death.
Next they will start jailing women for not having kids. Nice.
Inverse of one-child policy, I guess.
Putin has all the money, it’s his reponsibility to father all the children. He doesn’t have long, he should get to work.
