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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Yeah, I have a boy and a girl.

Germany already hardly has any kids and now they're trying to send the young women to the front. 🥴
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5d8e79cb | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Well to be fair they did once all but lost in the mists of time now, but it wasn't for an abstract entity called the state.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 They could raise the birth rate really fast by exempting pregnant or nursing mothers. 🤣
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jericho | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 This is a fact!

What scares me, beyond the inevitability of these coming wars (or so it seems) is the declining birth rates worldwide. We have four (on girl/3boys) and just the maintenance of first world infrastructure is going to be challenging, not to mention having progress on the technology front at the same time with rapidly decreasing populations…