| Perhaps instead of thinking of religion as "operating systems" you think instead about society as a whole. Religion is just a type of politics. A set of ideas and values. The factor you're masking is gender equality as it ties to religion. India has a significant gender imbalance of children skewed towards boys due to girls being aborted. Because due to religion were less valued and was reflected in inheritance laws. Korea recently elected an antifeminist leader driven by popularity with young men. Doesn't make them attractive unless we go back to the times of forced marriage. Though I do hear there's activists in the west preaching "enforced monogamy" There are other factors that are more impactful. Like cost of living being significantly higher resulting in adults spending more years working to get to the same financial position as the previous generation. If you need to work until you're 30 to be in the same relative position as your parents when they were 24 then that makes a huge impact when it comes to starting a family. Also factor in that more educated people have fewer children worldwide, and university education adds more years before a person starts working. |