You don't need to spoil kids with the best possible education, day care and shit they don't even need.
Today's parents are too much. Our generation didn't even have half the stuff that today's kids do, we still did alright.
Homeschooling is a great and realistic option that most people don't even consider. They just want to justify breaking their backs without even asking their own family if they need all that extra money and privileges.
Homeschooling works if we are home to school them. But most of our hours are spent at work and commute :')
Yes, but you're working to earn more to be able to afford good schooling. One parent staying back isn't unreasonable when you don't have to worry about school and travel costs which are significant by themselves.
Plus you can fast track their learning using all of the tools and knowledge available on the internet. Just need to guide their curiosity and let them choose a career early on according to their interests.
The previous generation had their eldest son as their retirement plan plus the housing market allowed to them grow families. These boomera hoarding crazy amount of wealth has put millennials in this position where having a child just doesn't make sense.
More focus on individualism, women participating in work force are some other factors.
This recent video by kurzgesagt on the same topic https://youtu.be/LBudghsdByQ is great.
I studied in a Govt school in Kerala and came out decent. Costed me 200 Rs per year.
South Korea also suffers the problem of foreign brides. Since most Korean women are well educated and now participate in workforce(which is good thing), the marriage rate has declined since women no longer need to marry a man for survival.
As a consequence many Korean men marry poor women from neighbor countries. These women learn Korean, learn how to cook n all. There are even coaching centres for. Families of these women charge money for marrying off their daughters.
Downside being these women are treated like a commodity and often times are victim of domestic violence.