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Critics label as ‘absurd’ idea from government-backed thinktank as country seeks to address population decline

A government thinktank in South Korea has sparked anger after suggesting that girls start primary school a year earlier than boys because the measure could raise the country’s low birthrate.

A report by analysts at the Korea Institute of Public Finance said creating a one-year age gap between girls and boys at school would make them more attractive to each other by the time they reached marriageable age.

The claim is based on the idea that men are naturally attracted to younger women because men mature more slowly. Those women, in theory, would prefer to marry older men.

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 5 months ago

The trend has been blamed on the high cost of raising and educating children, and the lack of affordable housing

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

This is funny to me.

Oh, it costs too much to educate kids? Just put them in schools at a younger age, rip off that bandaid sooner.

No, let's not talk about the wound that bandaid is covering up in the first place, that's completely unrelated.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

"This summer, 100 Filipino domestic helpers and childminders will arrive in South Korea as part of a pilot programme designed to ease the pressure on working women who fear they will have to leave their jobs if they have children."

TL;DR - It's cheaper to pay Filipinos to raise children than it is to pay actual biological mothers.

[-] cmeio@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Maybe also fathers. Would help also if it not falls always back on the women to take care of the kids. There are 2 parents that could shoulder that

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I just quoted the article yo, but you do make a valid point.

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