Ruma was having lunch on a summer day in 2021 when her phone began blowing up with notifications. When she opened the messages, they were devastating.
  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    22 hours ago

    I had a talk with my brother today and we both agreed that South Korea’s looking quite bleak.

    • for context our parents from South Korea gave birth to both of us in Canada.

    SK’s current and ongoing birthrate crisis is only going to get worse. Pregnancy and proper childcare can only be sustained if the systems are there to make this a reality.

    Unless the government steps in, I find it difficult to believe that things will getting better without proper intervention.

    • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      18 hours ago

      Part of the problem is social though. Until it stops being so patriarchal, misogynistic and heirarchical this problem is likely to continue and it even runs deep into the government, so they won’t necessarily solve it.

    • Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      18 hours ago

      They should be treating it as a national emergency. Funds for childcare, pay off loans for teachers, 1 year off if you’re pregnant, 3 months off if you’re the spouse, nurses/midwives making home visits. This shit isn’t complicated, we’ve only been doing it for all of human fucking history. Fuck, if the problem is funds then switch to a lottery system of eligible recipients until you figure out how to raise funds.