A senior Russian demographer has proposed cutting the number of years children must attend school in order to promote earlier parenthood and reverse a national trend towards lower fertility, TASS reports.

Sergey Rybalchenko, head of the Public Chamber’s Demography Commission, has argued that bold steps are necessary to prevent Russia’s population from shrinking.

In recent years, the country has seen negative natural population growth, falling from 149 million in 1993 to 146 million in 2025 despite an influx of immigrants and the unification of the country with Crimea in 2014 and four former Ukrainian regions in 2022.

>>510628798 (OP)
>maybe we should stop throwing men into a meat grinder and making life miserable
>no, we must destroy education to increase the birth rate!
lol
lmfao

>>510628798 (OP)
He's right (especially in the case of women).

>>510628798 (OP)
Just announce that any childless woman 18-55 will be drafted to fight in Ukraine next year. Give them options to adopt if infertile. By next year you'll have like 50m births and empty orphanages.

>>510629256
Almost entirely in the case of women. Especially giving women university education.
The problem with educating women, is that they feel like they need to make use of it. They won't give up having a career to have a family, unless they can get a husband that makes significantly more money than they would make by working. And only a small percentage of men make significantly more than the average woman can make. There is of course the option for the woman to keep working while the man stays home and takes care of the kids, but women will never be happy with this.

>>510629008
Males dying is irrelevant, it was normal throughout history. You are also overdosing on propaganda believing there are more than million dead or something like that. They are insignificant in grand scheme of things.
What matters the most are females and how many children they have on average. Ukraine for example is fucked most of all not because of male losses, a lot more died in WW2. But due to young fertile females running away, together with children. The Ukrainian female demographic pyramid is completely upside down and fertility is below 1. This is a complete catastrophe.

Didn't Russia have one of lowest birhrates in Europe? I doubt the war and sanctions has hepled it. When boomers cry about Russia taking on the whole of nato you can just point out that Russia wont haver the future manpower to fight a massive war and run the country.

>>510634701
its not just the men dying but also the drain on the economy that affects everyone, even those far from the frontlines.
if the economy is devastated, you cant maintain a family and the future outlook is even worse the last thing you'll think of is making children.
it's the same problem everywhere, we haven't forgotten how to make kids, it's just that maintaining a family is very difficult.

>>510631439
You're not wrong AND that's big brain. They can't even bitch because dudes get drafted and have no out. Who the fuck am I kidding they'd bitch lol.

>>510632637
Optimum level of education for women is eighth grade, unless they are exceedingly wealthy or talented in something.