There are some economic factors. I have been reading and researching about Japan's demographic crisis for about a decade and have done considerable field work there on the topic of IT professionals; most recently a few days ago.
Costs, apartment space, salaried men not returning home until very late, are some of the reasons for remaining single, deferring marriage, or divorces. Anecdotally there is little interest among professional women to marry Japanese men because probably of the work schedule. Also women once they get married lose their permanent job if they had one or they generally do not find one to begin with because having children does not mesh with the long hours demanded by employers. Lastly there is something to be said about social modernity, which has accompanied capitalism pretty much in all the oecd and among the upwardly mobile classes in the non oecd, which gives men and women options that are not circumscribed by conventional, conservative social norms. That is fertility rates in the oecd and among the upwardly mobile classes in the developing world are on the decline, in fact many below or close to replacement rate. Cheers, Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ Recent Conference (The Land Question) http://idsk.edu.in/program.php New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 Recent books: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198082286.do#.UI5Wzmc2dI0 http://www.oup.com/localecatalogue/cls_academic/?i=9780199646210 http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=295354 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Feb 16, 2015, at 04:26, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> What's a good Marxist take on Valentine's Day? >> .======== >> What's a good chemical explanation of skipping rope? >> >> MARSISM IS NOT A TOE. > > > > I wasn't being flippant. In case you didn't know, Japan appears to be in the > middle of a sexual/demographic crisis: > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex > > Doesn't some of this have to do with economic factors, alienation and/or the > commodification of human relationships etc? I don't know, but it was a > serious question. > -raghu. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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