UK birth rate plummets

[gas112]

due to being contracted out for a while i had to have 44 years contributions to get full pension but at less than 200 quid a year it never broke the bank

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Then you get education and empowerment of women, (and availability of contraception). So the power in decisions about birth rate start to move to educated empowered women, with access to contraception. So population growth slows, eventually stops, and then goes into a slow population decrease.

This has been happening for a long time in UK. Educated types and higher social classes having fewer children, but underclass and recent immigrants still producing lots of kids - aided by state handouts. Middle classes can't afford big families any more. All this results in the decline we're seeing as the wrong sort of people churn out more underclass to be supported by the state one way or another. Rise in crime is another consequence.

 

[Brigadier]

.... to be supported by the state one way or another....

due to being contracted out for a while i had to have 44 years contributions to get full pension but at less than 200 quid a year it never broke the bank

Quite.

 

[StephenStephen]

This has been happening for a long time in UK. Educated types and higher social classes having fewer children, but underclass and recent immigrants still producing lots of kids - aided by state handouts. Middle classes can't afford big families any more. All this results in the decline we're seeing as the wrong sort of people churn out more underclass to be supported by the state one way or another. Rise in crime is another consequence.

Crime is falling, poverty is not the same as immorality, and middle class people ie; people with more money have (unsurprisingly) more money!