There is a direct strong correlation between being religious and not accepting the modern lifestyle and birth rates. While more conservative countries have higher birth rates, in modern countries with lower birth rates, religious people who try to preserve their traditional values have much higher birth rates.
For example, a study in Austria found that Christians have twice as many children as non-religious people.
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/%E2%80%A6s-people-have-more-children
Similarly, in the US, there is a direct correlation between the frequency of church attendance and the number of children.
https://ifstudies.org/%E2%80%A6ous-secular-fertility-divide
In almost every country, the ratio of children per woman is above 2.1 in groups that try to preserve their traditional lifestyle.
This is not surprising because if you examine how the role of women in modern society has been designed throughout history, you will understand how reproduction has been undermined.
If you scientifically examine the female human, that is, women, like other social mammal species in nature, you can easily see that women have evolved to start giving birth to children at the age of 16, give birth to nearly 10 children throughout their lives, and feed, breastfeed and educate these children for a long time.
Traditional societies have given women a similar role in society. If you examine even pre-Christian societies, you will see the same truth in ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians, Chinese, even Aztecs and Native Americans. Likewise, the situation is similar in hunter-gatherer societies. Women marry at a young age. They usually have more than two children. The most important duty in society is motherhood. Their duty after motherhood is to contribute economically to their own society. The most valuable woman in society is the woman who has given birth to and raised the best children.
Modern society, on the other hand, is a society designed for a small minority of super-rich people to become even richer. The super-rich not only own the media that directs societies, the written and visual press, but also have the most political power and influence the governments the most. The vast majority of services provided by states to societies, including the national education system, have been manipulated by the super-rich.
When women have too many children in a society, a problem of resource sharing automatically arises. When a woman has more than 3 children, she cannot work outside; she must look after the children at home. In this case, the man, as the only worker, cannot look after the entire family. If there are 6 children, 1 person must feed 8 people.
It is a fact that a man who cannot provide enough food to feed his own children is more demanding and aggressive. In addition, while the man is in his 40s, his sons have become adults and can support their fathers in their struggle for bread. Those young men can also be seriously demanding and aggressive. When you examine the struggle between workers and employers during the industrialization period, you will see that the owners of capital could not fight the rapidly reproducing working class. Those men fought with their lives and blood to protect their jobs and for better wages.
This war is very serious. This is the basic method of providing income justice in nature. Those who are hungry attack those who have much more than they can consume and take the resources from them.
Destroying the surplus population is the main priority for the rich. If they cannot destroy that population, that crowd will not allow them to take their wealth and remain as a super rich minority. For the super rich, reducing the population is an existential problem.
The rich in the West have eased the problem by sending these men to the continents they had just started to colonize, America, Australia and Africa. Especially after World War II, when this problem could no longer be solved by migrating from Europe, they solved the problem by killing several birds with one stone. Birth control methods have been very helpful to them.
The solution is also obvious. When a woman marries young, she has many children early and cannot leave the house. The man she marries has to take care of the woman and the children. If a woman does not marry and have children, she will have to work because she will not have an income. Since there will be no children, everyone will support themselves with their own salary. Therefore, even if the salary is seriously reduced, people will not complain. It is also known that men and women who live alone are much more obedient than women and men who live in large families and that they follow the instructions given by the rich. The ideal society for the super rich is a society without families or children. In this society, they can make very high profits by paying very low wages, and no one can harm their power. Modern society is built on this understanding.
Reproduction is the basis of life. Non-reproductive species and societies are doomed to extinction. Modern societies are also social structures doomed to extinction. The beginning of the extinction of modern society and its discomfort to the wealthy segments began in Europe in the 1970s. There was a serious shortage of working people in Europe, salaries began to increase rapidly and company profitability began to decrease. Normally, the solution to this problem of the number of people should be to try to increase birth rates, but the rich found the solution in accepting immigrants. It is known that people with similar genetic structures and cultures can organize more easily, form a power and rebel. Multicultural structures are more fragile, much harder to rebel and are more obedient societies.
Continuing to accept immigrants is vital for the continuation of modern societies. When these societies stop accepting immigrants, they will inevitably experience economic problems. Salaries will increase greatly and people will not be found to employ them. As a result, the super rich cannot increase their wealth any further.
Low birth rates and high immigration are vital dangers to the health and security of the nation and states. Normally, a society abandons policies that lead to its destruction, but the rich continue because they profit more from this destruction process and are in power. At the end of this process, the super rich continue with these policies even if they cause the destruction of the nation and states. The rich do not have a state or nation, they have money and wealth.
Frankly, the rich's aim to get rich at all costs as if there is no tomorrow and the fact that the same rich can determine state policies with the power they have leaves this problem unsolved. All modern societies will disappear step by step. They will continue to destroy the societies that resist modernization in the world by modernizing them. Of course, this situation will not last forever. Before the human race completely disappears, it can develop an alternative society to modern society and continue to reproduce again. But this is a long time from happening. I probably cannot see it.
If it could be solved, how would the birth rate be increased? In fact, what I will write will be the version of what has been done in traditional societies for thousands of years, adapted to developing technology.
The education and upbringing of girls and boys will be separated. The education of girls in particular will be accelerated and should be largely completed before the age of 16.
In the education system, girls should be given training on childbearing and raising children. Thus, when they reach the age of childbearing, they should have the knowledge and self-confidence to give birth and raise children.
In all channels that guide society, such as television, cinema, newspapers, social media, books and the like, women who have given birth to and raised many children should be role models. For example, series should be shot that tell how happy, peaceful and valuable a woman who has given birth to and raised 6 children is. It should be told how unhappy women without children are and how they spend their lives in vain.
The laws should privilege women not because they are women, but because they are mothers. The laws and social security structures should protect women who are mothers, especially if they have many children. A woman should know that the more healthy children she gives birth to and raises, the more support she will receive from the society and the state.
These may seem like very radical views. But look at it this way: What is the most valuable thing in your life?
Would you accept it if someone said to you that they would destroy your child but give you a brand new luxury car in return?
or when they say we will give you a 100 thousand TL raise but we will kill all your children, would you accept it?
What is the material value of your child?
When you realize that your most valuable asset for you and even for society is your children, when you realize how much of your life you spend on your meaningless, valueless job, you will understand what I mean.
