Thailand urges action as births fall 37% in nine years

Probably giving money would incentivise them enough

I predict that eventually governments will step in to stop or reverse this worldwide trend. Some governments are already encouraging having children with tax or monetary incentives but it's not working.

It will come the day when having children becomes compulsory. Governments will make it mandatory for women to have three children before they are 25 years old. And older women living at the time the legislation is introduced will be handed a production schedule based on their current age - so a 35 year-old might be forced to produce one child within 5 years.

A host of Orwellian regulations will support this policy, such as a ban on childless women being able to work or travel, an abortion ban (obviously), government appointed semen donors, mandatory incarceration for childless women, rewards for over producing, etc.

The twist will be that society will be urged to demonize childless women, and idolise women with large families.

It will happen in China first.

10 years from now this discussion will be moot.

How about make love not war !

Bit dated (!) but kills two birds with one slogan !

The question is: why are birth rates declining? Is it due to fewer people getting married, economic factors, or something else?

We were only discussing this a few weeks ago, I know many Thai women who are net even married let alone having kids, Lots of women are divorced, My own wife doesn't want kids,

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No need for workers , AI and robots will do the work.

The more developed people become , the less children they have.

Well, the richest 5% of the Thai population own about 80% of the wealth.
https://tdri.or.th/en/2019/07/bridging-disparity-still-an-elusive-goal/

With foreigners also holding fair chunk of real property, it doesn't leave much for the bottom, say, 90% of the population, does it?

Women are being educated at a greater rate, holding off having children for longer - if they have any at all - and, of course, if at the lowest of economic positions; not enough money to feed them.

Take into account the current, say, 18-24 year-old's grandmother (even GGM) probably helped raise them in a multi-generational family home, with mom/dad probably being one of six, seven, or eight kids themselves.

Grandmas are dying off, Mom still has to work to send her own kids to school, so the child-rearing falls directly to the mother and father directly. Which impacts their own - non-farming - career - prospects.

Now that prophylactics like condoms, the pill, IUDs, contraceptive implants, and abortion are readily available, especially the first two being very cheap, it leads to an obvious conclusion.

The only real "shock" is that most of the Devleoped World went through this in the late-19th to mid-20th century as antibiotics, vaccinations, and universally accepted medicines and procedures became available, so having twelve kids so that some of them make it adulthood was no longer required.

Here? Only one or two generations ago - many members of which are still living. My landlandy (who's about 54-56) is sixth of eight children of the nine born to her mother, her father also one of eight. Of all of the landlady's immediate seven siblings, only one has more then two kids. They have three. The landlady is grandmother to one by her son. And her daughter doesn't want children; she's studying to be a scientist and work in America or Taiwan.

It's money and the access to information the current generation have to news and information from around the world via the internet that hasn't been curated by the government.

The story states the government is worried about the loss of "labor-intensive" positions. The thing is, people don't want to do them.

They've seen the alternatives.

I read recently, the Thai armed forces have seen a fairly noticeable increase in volunteer enlistment. Steady pay, possible career path, training, educational prospects, health cover, and no food insecurity.