Chinese Fertility Falling Faster Than Expected: Are “Chads” to Blame?

We analyze new stats showing China's births plummeting by 37% in a decade, despite government pleas for more kids. Women don't want "Chad" husbands offering no partnership while still expecting housework and caretaking. Male sexual strategies that incorporate porn personas rather than earning respect backfire in marriage.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone! We are here again with. More shocking stats on how quickly fertility rates are falling in some parts of the world. The latest ones that really got me, and honestly, whenever I look at the Chinese numbers, I'm always just flabbergasted at how bad things are.

And I should point out here, just so people are under no illusions here, because there is this popular myth, Chinese fertility rates are falling because of the one child policy. This is a myth. Okay Chinese fertility rates are not, they are falling much faster now than under the one child policy.

They are much lower now than they were under the one child policy. They did not fall because of the one child policy. They fell due to a few issues that we are going to be discussing that are actually very similar. Similar to some of the issues that Korea and Japan have with their fertility rates.

Would you like to know more?

Malcolm Collins: And in a way are tied to being too conservative which is really interesting and goes [00:01:00] back to this Aryababu study that we've mentioned before, which shows that in Europe, the more conservative a country is on average, the lower their fertility rate. While the more conservative a population group was in a country is, the higher their fertility rate, which goes against what a lot of people will assume is, is, is the case.

So this shocking statistic that I saw that really got to me and, was that over the past 10 years, so from 2022 back to 2012, , the number of babies born in China per year dropped. from 16 million all the way down to only 10 million over a 10 year period.

That is a 37. 5 percent decline. That is stunning and shocking. Like

Wow. Wow. But it gets more interesting than this. Like, it's not like China isn't trying to prevent [00:02:00] this decline right now and why this is all relevant is I actually think it's very relevant to the United States and it's very relevant to some of the reproductive strategies men have decided to reactively begin to attempt and I think due to the rise of feminism and an overcorrection for that.

And I think That it is these strategies that we see mirrored sort of what happens to the populations that adopt them. We see that in what's going on in China right now, in what's going on in Korea right now. So, Simone, you had read an article. I'd love you to go into this. Yeah,

Simone Collins: I mean, what got me thinking about this was I got a Google Alert, We have a demographic collapse Google Alert, of course for an article.

On Business Insider India, so totally random, titled Chinese women are fed up with Xi Jinping's attempts to make them have more and more kids. And the article talks about how basically the CCP has had, like they've had, they've made [00:03:00] speeches. They've said, we need to create a new trend of family. And they're trying to create.

Matchmaking events and getting, get more people to get married. And she said he wants the Chinese people to quote, actively cultivate a new culture of marriage and childbearing to strengthen guidance on young people's view on marriage, childbirth, and family. And then. That the article talks about it basically like Chinese women aren't having it.

But Chinese women are pushing back. I can't afford to take care of anything else aside from my parents and work. Molly Chen told the wall street journal. So. There's just basically like women to a great extent are like, they're hearing what the government is saying. They're also like, well aware that their access to reproductive choices being removed.

But they're just not. They're not going to comply. I think this is going to be another lying flat issue. And the, the article does note also that there has been a meaningful decline, not just in births, but in registered marriages. [00:04:00] So they fell from 13 million to 2013 to 6. 8 million in 2022,

Malcolm Collins: 13 million to 6.

8 million. How far apart were those two numbers?

Simone Collins: 10 years? So yeah, 2013. 13 million. 2022, 6. 8 million. So, almost falling in half. Like cutting in half. Holy s**t.

Malcolm Collins: And I was looking to see with all of China's efforts to try to get their fertility rate up again. I couldn't find this year's statistics because Well, here's the name of an article.

China deletes leaked stats showing plunging birth rate for 2023. Cause like how, how bad they do in 2023. Apparently so bad that China is now trying to scrub the internet of how bad they're doing in 2023. I mean We have talked about some things that lead to this in China. Right. One of the things that we've talked about that leads to this in China is just a lack of hope.

You know, like why does Israel have a high fertility rate? Despite you know, it's economic prosperity when, when [00:05:00] Israelis are pressuring other Israelis to have kids. It's not so that the, the entrenched power structure of their country can maintain their, their wealth. It's because they believe they're in an existential battle for their survival.

When the Chinese CCP government tells your average Chinese, you know, teen go have kids that person is like, what? So you can keep. More power and more money, and my family has no real chance of moving up within our society. No, screw you. There is a, no, no, it's true, and, and that is one thing that's causing this.

And another thing that's causing this is a genuine lack of belief that there's hope for the future of the country within China. Which always depresses the country's fertility rate. Another thing that's causing this is the lack of diversity within China. As we've said, you know, the less diversity you have within an area, typically, the lower the fertility rate's going to be.

Especially if you have some conflict within these, these diverse populations, because that spikes fertility rates, because it gives people an understanding of this is who I am, this is who they are, and we are in some form of, of hopefully friendly competition. Yeah, you have a team to root for, whatever.

Yeah, a [00:06:00] team to root for, right? You know, that's how you get people to go crazy at the sports games and everything. So, okay, all that being the case. There is another area where China is really failing, and where South Korea is really failing, and where Japan is really failing, that we

Simone Collins: really need to Well, and arguably the United States and Europe are failing too.

Malcolm Collins: Beginning to, yes, not quite as bad. Yeah, no, it's not

Simone Collins: nearly as bad, but I We need to go there.

Malcolm Collins: It is the conservative attitude with which men are approaching the marriage marketplaces. And when I say conservative attitude, I don't mean conservative, like doing things the way they used to be done. It's conservative in not seating.

Any of the rights that men had historically as they are gaining additional privileges that they wouldn't have had in a historic context. So what do we mean by this? As women [00:07:00] have been able to make their own money, have been able to enter the job market. Particularly within countries like China and South Korea, the men are not letting them out of any housework.

They are not contributing to childcare. They are putting on this, what in the U. S. I think is defined