This is definitely a contributor, but declining fertility rates isn't a new thing.

I think the largest problem is average hours worked per parent has been increasing for 60 plus years.

We need more full time jobs at 30 hours a week or so.

You do realize that these things go hand in hand, no? Capitalists needwant cheap labor, so they exploit immigrants, in turn driving down wages for everyone.

Edit: I received some criticism as though I'm suggesting "immigrants are taking our jobs" - that's wrong. I'm only saying that capitalists are exploiting a vulnerable population, which in turn creates more wage stagnation as the market is flooded with cheap labour.

I'm very pro-immigration, but I try to understand the nuance it has on the job market.___

I wonder if people realize that if we were to (as a thought experiment) get rid of all immigration but replace that entirely with homegrown birth rates, it would exacerbate the "problems" with population growth far more than doing it with immigration. Instead of bringing in working people who can start contributing to the economy essentially immediately, we would be bringing in children who would be drains on our resources for the next 18 years until we can educate them and get them into productive roles. The benefit of immigration is that some other country pours the resources into turning a child into a productive adult and then we reap the rewards.

Why are so many people having fewer and fewer children?

Becase you have given women automony; via work, the right to choose and mostly taken religious shaming away. When they control their destiny, they'll mostly choose 0,1 or 2 children.. Replacement rate for a steady population is 2.1

No amount of childcare subsidy or work flexibility will change that, it's the same in places like Swdean. Same all over the world in developed countries

The answer to this is really simple: the more money you have, the less children you have…or vice verse.

You’re asking why comfortable or wealthy people have less children? Because children are very expensive. You literally can’t be wealthy if you have a lot of children…or you will be far less likely to wealthy.

Short story long: most Canadians have to run on the hamster wheel to meet capitalist/materialist goals and delay having children.