I have to admit, these kinds of conversations make me nervous. I get the impression, even if it's stated subtly that many men think women should be still in the home, give up their jobs or career, risk total financial dependence, risk physical problems etc, because that's the most convenient to them. Of course, increasing your family is easy if a woman is at home to do all the work and bears all the financial risk if the marriage goes south.

These conversations never wonder how they could make the lives of mothers better or if they do, it's only to dismiss it (it doesn't work in Sweden!). The more nervous women get of their rights, the less inclined they will be to bring a child, especially a girl, into the world. It's been personally disappointing to me to see feminism cross into anti-natalism sometimes but I guess that's why.

We do potential studies to see how people react to energy, how we can get them to use less, what works? Why not do a potential study to see how we can encourage more kids, what works. The problem is that no country believes that this is worth investing that much in. They still expect to see results for little or nothing.