{"id":358091,"date":"2024-02-28T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=358091"},"modified":"2024-02-28T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:00:08","slug":"why-south-korean-women-arent-having-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=358091","title":{"rendered":"Why South Korean Women Aren&#8217;t Having Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-68402139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Yejin decided to live alone in her mid-20s, she defied social norms &#8211; in Korea, single living is largely considered a temporary phase in one&#8217;s life.<br \/>\nThen five years ago, she decided not to get married, and not to have children.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to find a <strong>dateable man<\/strong> in Korea &#8211; one who will <strong>share the chores and the childcare equally<\/strong>,&#8221; she tells me, &#8220;And women who have babies alone are not judged kindly.&#8221; [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think of it as evolution in action. Feminism is a self-correcting problem over the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC. When Yejin decided to live alone in her mid-20s, she defied social norms &#8211; in Korea, single living is largely considered a temporary phase in one&#8217;s life. Then five years ago, she decided not to get married, and not to have children. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to find a dateable man in Korea &#8211; one who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358092,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358091\/revisions\/358092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}