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[[File:Ab2d9b40ffd76765.png|thumb|Some teen birth rates]]
'''[[Wikipedia:Total fertility rate|Total fertility rate]]''' (the average number of children birthed by a woman) is estimated to be at around the global '''replacement rate''' of 2.0-2.4 in the 2020s. Where fertility rate falls below replacement rate, global population starts to go into decline, negatively impacting economic performance and increasing the relative number of elderly and infirm people in developed societies.

It has been suggested that one way of increasing birth/fertility rate is to relax laws against [[statutory rape]] and allow some degree of [[Youth-Adult Marriage]], reintroducing pre- and postwar dating norms and normalizing [[Research: Teen pregnancy|teen pregnancies]]. More permissive norms with respect to the [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|agency]] and [[Research: Cognitive ability|capacities]] of youth might also be pursued to combat [[ageism]], providing the basis for a broad cultural coalition between those concerned with the slow decline of western societies, and those more alarmed by potential back-slippage towards regressive social values.

==Initiatives==

In 2024, Russia made it's first moves towards banning the ideology of antinatalism:<ref>[https://nordictimes.com/world/russia-wants-to-ban-extremist-childlessness-ideology/ Russia wants to ban “extremist childlessness ideology” - Nordic Times]</ref>
[[File:Screenshot 2024-07-27 140216.png|thumb|Some countries with particularly high birth rates<ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/264704/ranking-of-the-20-countries-with-the-highest-birth-rate/ Statista: Countries with high birth rates]</ref>]]
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''We are now actively preparing bills to prevent the spread of child-free ideology. One should not be able to promote ideas that “nowadays girls, especially young ones, do not need to give birth, they can do without children”''
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==External links==

*[https://www.wsj.com/us-news/america-birth-rate-decline-a111d21b U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low]
:*[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-birth-rate-drops-record-low-2023-after-pandemic-uptick/ U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick]
*[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72p2vgd21no How should countries deal with falling birth rates?]
*[https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-dramatic-declines-global-fertility-rates-set-transform The Lancet: Dramatic declines in global fertility rates set to transform global population patterns by 2100]
*[https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/08/city-love-a-sex-recession-god-help-rest-us-20244173/ The city of love is in a sex recession — God help the rest of us]

==References==

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