Birth Rates Continue To Decline In Canada
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In this episode, we talk about the current demographics crisis in the world and how to deal with it. We discuss the lack of children being born in countries like Canada, Japan, Korea, Japan and South Korea, why this is happening, and what can be done to address the problem.
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think about okay the 40s 50s 60s if the government encouraged families to have kids if um the church
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if the community groups let's have a family most people listen to that now in 2026 going into into
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the 2030s you don't trust any of it though right why as a young person how much trust do you have
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this is where i was going to say is how how much of this is lack of hope and lack of trust
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canada japan italy and south korea have many things in common not the least of which there
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are four of the countries in the world with some of the lowest birth rates on the planet
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and that's adding to a bit of a issue when it comes to demographics to talk more about it
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liam deborah liam how you doing great great yeah and brady you sweet bastard what's happening
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how are you man how are you good um it's something i know it's been in the news a
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a lot gentlemen yeah elon musk has posted a lot on s x about it he's passionate about it but
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there's been scientific research by some of the most um you know in-depth universities on the
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planet worried about the population changes and how it's going to affect a lot of countries
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as the aging population outstrips new birth rates it could be a bit of a future economic crisis
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yeah i my stance on it is very like normally on this network i don't get too too firm in my
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conservative beliefs but i'm definitely kind of in the conservative uh belief system as to why
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this is happening and i'll elaborate as we get we get going now liam for some scientists and some
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people who spend their life looking at stats and demographics they're calling it a crisis for a lot
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of countries canada included where do you stand on it well yeah i for sure see it is i mean it's
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driving a lot of different issues whether it be economic activity i mean even what we're seeing
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That's obviously being seen as a solution to this.
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Even the UN released a report about 20 years ago
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Because yeah, we've got large welfare services
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then they're going to they're going to push for certain levers to pull so right now according to
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all the numbers Canadians without kids want roughly two kids instead of the average of only 1.25 now I
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thought that was interesting my partner and I we have two daughters in their 20s they're both
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graduated school they're making their way through business and their chosen careers but realistically
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between the two of them we might get one grandkid because that's just how they view life and
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everything and we know a lot of couples our age in the same boat with sons and daughters but mainly
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daughters in the same age they're looking at if they have a family it's one kid or maybe no kids
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at all i think that's as a as a country he's canon a lot of society in western europe and north
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america that's becoming more commonly now is that because they're so busy like you would know this
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personally with them because obviously you're their father is it because they're so busy are
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they waiting is it like have you had this conversation with them our youngest it's choice
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She loves kids, but doesn't think she wants to bring one into the world and raise one.
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Our oldest definitely would, whether or not she gives birth or adopts.
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But it's just their attitudes towards family and kids.
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I think overall, for a lot of young people, especially women and young men in their early mid-20s,
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the reason why i ask so i'm in my my early 40s right um uh and i knew at 18 i wasn't gonna have
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kids so i made that that choice um i was like i don't know if i kind of the same things you're
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saying i don't i thought back then you know that 24 years ago that this was maybe a bad idea that
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i could see the direction of where things were heading i didn't obviously can't predict the
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future but i just felt like i wasn't going to be in a position where i was able to ever have kids
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because i didn't think i would ever have the time to be able to focus on them that i wanted to be
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successful and the only way that i could is by dedicating 10 to 15 hours a day yeah seven days
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a week into whatever i was putting my effort into and i collectively had made that decision at 18.
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so the reason why i'm asking you is i'm just trying to figure out if their decision making
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was the same that i had at somewhat at that age i know for our oldest she's you know competing
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um trying to complete her masters but she definitely down the road as she gets older
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and more established she's looking at a family but cassandra our youngest is like
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it's not really her thing and we'd like we totally respect it she like she'll be the cool aunt i
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guess uh if we have a grandkid but you know liam like she's just it's not not for against it's just
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not what she's planning i don't know if things change but that's not right now in her future
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it's nothing she thinks about liam do you have kids i don't i don't i would love to though okay
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okay so your your mentality is that eventually one day you're gonna have a family if you
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actively working towards it i keep that it's not for me it's not a mentality of okay i got to do
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xyz thing before i make that step it's more so trying to find somebody that wants to approach
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it the same as i do because what i find a lot in the modern dating market is that people assume
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things like a family and kids and all of that is going to just we don't think about it we just
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enjoy each other's time and company and we uh we're here to we're here to have fun and and
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that things will kind of just come together they'll fall together and i'm like no that's not
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how i want to go about it though because that's how i think a lot of families end up dysfunctional
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right is i kind of want to go into it with a little bit more uh more awareness and more planning
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and being like okay you know what what is this going to look like and have a partner with a
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similar mindset right and that's that's what i found the most difficult part is finding somebody
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that values it to the same degree that I would because I was 32 before I met my my wife and up
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until then I thought of having a family or kid was not in my mindset whatsoever as I got older
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I just thought yeah and then I met someone and then we realized you know we were in in sync and
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so many things and eventually got married to kids but up until then you know like no I was like oh
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I guess it's not happening and I think I think a big part too when we're talking about that
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disconnect between how many kids people want versus how many they actually have is and i see
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this across the board in so many different discussions not necessarily just families but
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people wanting the reward of something but not the cost input and so so it's like i want the
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reward of this amazing family or you see the same thing with business and career and money like i
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i want to be rich and then but you go well here's the cost here's the price tag and they don't want
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to pay that which is the time the effort the responsibility and so on there was a fascinating
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report that came out just yesterday for the first time in u.s history women over 40 are having more
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babies than teenagers yeah you're saying that and and that shocked a lot of people so for years
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especially in american society agricultural rural society a woman having a child at 18 19 was not
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unusual at all i i knew it when i was young i had friends that were having kids at 15 right i knew
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girls as young as 14 having kids which we don't recommend but no but i mean it happened in my
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generation in the late 90s i knew numerous people and so i think a lot of that is education among
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young women sex education the ability to make sure you have proper birth control and the different
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varieties of it that's changed and and you know there's been many studies that post-covid a lot
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of young people aren't socializing like they did pre-covid there there has been a social shift
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about when you meet someone how you meet someone and maybe there's going to be a gap until
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you sort of mature out of that struggle of post-covid that hit a lot of people
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and then find that person that partner you're looking for in life so when you see this in the
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news and when we when we see facts that are put together like this we're getting a lot of the
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facts as to the numbers as to it's declining and we know it's declining yes and we can share our
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opinions as to why we think it's declining all we want but has there ever been a report that says
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directly why is this declining in canada specifically well yeah the floor is yours
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well i was gonna say i i think it's tough because i don't view the world and the way that it unfolds
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as a linear cause because in terms of like A doesn't cause B which causes C which causes D
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it's more like a network where they all have effects on one another and we even see this in
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terms of like bad habits you could you could think about this as like a societal bad habit that we've
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had towards family uh family building and relationships but even just on a more personal
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scale you could think about it in terms of well okay people eat they binge eat because they don't
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feel good about themselves but then they don't feel good about themselves because they've been
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the number one like a spiral yeah number one sold thing during the depression candy yeah i've brought
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that up for during the pandemic no the actual depression the depression like the 1920s candy
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really number one sold item and so i think the same thing happens here where we've got a bunch
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of different aspects whether it be economics social ideals all of these kind of things that
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are all factors weighing in on the issue itself and so so i think i think it's multifaceted but
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i do believe the number one would be the ideal breakdown of these especially in the like the
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institutions have been pushing away from them for quite a while now but after the 1960s is when we