TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards an ethics of pronatalism in South Korea (and beyond)
AU - Lee, J Y
N1 - © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - East Asian countries such as South Korea have recently made headlines for experimenting with different methods to incentivise people to have (more) children, in a bid to reverse declining birth rates. Many such incentives-child benefits, cash bonuses, dating events, and so on-appear morally innocuous at first glance. I will demonstrate in this analysis, however, that they amount to stopgap measures which reveal fundamental shortcomings with the way various nation states are approaching the so-called 'problem' of fertility decline.
AB - East Asian countries such as South Korea have recently made headlines for experimenting with different methods to incentivise people to have (more) children, in a bid to reverse declining birth rates. Many such incentives-child benefits, cash bonuses, dating events, and so on-appear morally innocuous at first glance. I will demonstrate in this analysis, however, that they amount to stopgap measures which reveal fundamental shortcomings with the way various nation states are approaching the so-called 'problem' of fertility decline.
U2 - 10.1136/jme-2024-110001
DO - 10.1136/jme-2024-110001
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 39603803
JO - Journal of Medical Ethics
JF - Journal of Medical Ethics
SN - 0306-6800
ER -