Invasion of the Panda People – Demographic Winter Report #18

  

Reporting on the crisis of rapidly falling fertility

 

1. Gen Z, Millennial woman celebrate themselves with “success showers” – life’s not just marriage and motherhood – New York Post, September 12, 2024 https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/lifestyle/gen-z-millennials-celebrating-success-with-career-showers/

 

“The feat-focused fetes, rooted in female empowerment, see working women of the Big Apple and beyond being spotlighted for life achievements outside of marriage and motherhood.” Message: Marriage and children aren’t achievements.

 

2. Dog Strollers Outsell Baby Strollers Amid South Kores’s Birth Rate Crisis – Newsweek, September 1, 2024 https://www.newsweek.com/south-korea-news-dog-strollers-babies-1952011#:~:text=Dog%20strollers%20are%20outselling%20baby,to%20The%20Wall%20Street%20Journal.

 

In P.D. James “Children of Men,” about a worldwide plague of infertility, women with frustrated maternal instincts dressed up kittens in baby clothes and paraded them around in prams.

 

 

3. North Korea Issues Punishments to Raise Birth Rates – Newsweek, September 15, 2024 https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-news-punish-doctors-abortion-birthrate-1952489

 

“North Korean authorities have been punishing doctors who carry out abortions and the providers of contraceptives amid a drive to boost its birthrate, according to a recent report.”

 

4. What’s Really Driving the Birth-Rate Crisis – National Review, September 18, 2024 https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/09/whats-really-driving-the-birth-rate-crisis/

 

“Young Westerners increasingly resemble captive panda bears who have to be pushed into one another and bribed with delicacies to be persuaded to mate.”