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Childbearing strike.. South Korea fears the deadly turn

South Koreans they abstain from marriage and procreationbecause of what they think "patriarchal society" A patriarchal culture tends to hold women responsible for the arduous home and the bulk of childcare tasks.

But the decision not to have children is linked to many other factors, in which economic, social and even psychological considerations overlap.

South Korea has become the lowest country in the world in terms of female fertility, and it is in this situation "embarrassment" For the third year in a row, after this serious decline began three years ago.

The writer Jung added in a newspaper article "The New York Times"that the childbearing crisis has exacerbated in South Korea to the extent that children’s nurseries have become homes for the care of the elderly, while the number of students in some schools has decreased from hundreds to elements that can be counted on tiptoe.

She explained that in about half of South Korea’s 228 cities, counties and villages fear losing a lot of residents and turning into "ghost areas"while maternity hospitals are closed, amid the revival of funeral planning companies due to increasing aging.

In the eastern district of Seoksan, he is no longer in a district school "consider" Only four students, while their number was up to 700, before, and the author says "When I last visited them, I found that they couldn’t put together a team to play ball".

The data in South Korea points to a frightening reality:

  • In the 1960s, the average number of children a woman had was six, but after a campaign in the country for birth control, the number dropped dramatically in just twenty years.
  • The rate of children per woman in the country has fallen to less than 2.1; It is the rate and quorum that any country needs in order to keep pace with the renewal of society, given the occurrence of deaths, and the need for newborns to replace them.
  • The fertility rate fell to 0.81 children per woman in South Korea in 2021.
  • The fertility rate decreased to 0.79 children per woman in the third quarter of 2022.
  • UN figures estimate that South Korea’s current population of 51 million will halve by the end of this century.
  • In the year 2022, 65 percent of South Korean women said they do not want to have children.

The writer points to a number of reasons that drive South Korean women to refrain from having children and even marrying:

  • There is dissatisfaction among women with the culture of society that burdens women by assigning them the responsibility of caring for children, as figures indicate that women are forced to do this task for longer hours compared to what men do.
  • Financial conditions also play a role, due to the high costs of child care, and the high prices of real estate that families desperately need, while this Asian country is among the most expensive in the world.
  • The professional aspiration of women and the inability of many of them to reconcile the requirements of work on the one hand, and childcare on the other hand.
  • Work pressures described in Cairo, because long working hours do not leave an outlet for those who work and make them unable to think about building families.
  • Women also fear domestic violence, so many of them choose not to enter into marriage at all, in order to avoid what might happen to them at the hands of their husbands.

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According to South Korean activist and writer, Hawon Jung, many South Koreans they abstain from marriage and procreationBecause of what they consider to be a “patriarchal society” with a patriarchal culture that tends to hold women responsible for the arduous home and the bulk of childcare tasks.

But the decision not to have children is linked to many other factors, in which economic, social and even psychological considerations overlap.

South Korea has become the lowest country in the world in terms of women’s fertility, and it is in this “critical” situation for the third year in a row, after it began this dangerous decline three years ago.

In an article published in the New York Times, the author, Jung, added that the reproductive crisis has worsened in South Korea, until nurseries have become nursing homes for the elderly, while the number of students in some schools has declined from hundreds to elements that can be counted on tiptoe.

She explained that in about half of South Korea’s 228 cities, counties and villages fear losing a lot of residents and turning into “ghost areas”, while maternity hospitals are closed, amid the boom in funeral companies due to increasing aging.

In the Seoksan region in the east of the country, there are only four students in the “Gonui” district school, while their number was up to 700, before, and the author says, “When I visited them last time, I found that they could not form a team to play ball.”

The data in South Korea points to a frightening reality:

  • In the 1960s, the average number of children a woman had was six, but after a campaign in the country for birth control, the number dropped dramatically in just twenty years.
  • The rate of children per woman in the country has fallen to less than 2.1; It is the rate and quorum that any country needs in order to keep pace with the renewal of society, given the occurrence of deaths, and the need for newborns to replace them.
  • The fertility rate fell to 0.81 children per woman in South Korea in 2021.
  • The fertility rate decreased to 0.79 children per woman in the third quarter of 2022.
  • UN figures estimate that South Korea’s current population of 51 million will halve by the end of this century.
  • In the year 2022, 65 percent of South Korean women said they do not want to have children.

The writer points to a number of reasons that drive South Korean women to refrain from having children and even marrying:

  • There is dissatisfaction among women with the culture of society that burdens women by assigning them the responsibility of caring for children, as figures indicate that women are forced to do this task for longer hours compared to what men do.
  • Financial conditions also play a role, due to the high costs of child care, and the high prices of real estate that families desperately need, while this Asian country is among the most expensive in the world.
  • The professional aspiration of women and the inability of many of them to reconcile the requirements of work on the one hand, and childcare on the other hand.
  • Work pressures described in Cairo, because long working hours do not leave an outlet for those who work and make them unable to think about building families.
  • Women also fear domestic violence, so many of them choose not to enter into marriage at all, in order to avoid what might happen to them at the hands of their husbands.

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