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Old 2010-02-08, 21:46   Link #5986
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Originally Posted by LeoXiao View Post
More like "abortion=baby crisis." The amount of sex that Japanese people have most likely does not influence their birthrate so much as personal decision not to have children.
These things are not merely cause-and-effect. They are indicators of the underlying problems.

While it's certainly true that couples that don't have sex don't have children, much more relevant to the story is the fact that that the types of couples that have sexless marriages are not generally the types of couples who choose to rear families. There certainly may be other types of couples that also choose to not rear families, but that would be a separate issue.

The reasons why Japan has so many of these marriages is a subject deep and wide (ie, outside the scope of this particular thread).
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