Towards an ethics of pronatalism in South Korea (and beyond)

J Y Lee*

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Medical Ethics
ISSN0306-6800
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 2024

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