Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Trends

China's population woes deepen as marriage registrations tumble (scmp.com)
China is on track to post its lowest number of marriage registrations since 1980 this year, with an estimate from a leading demographer suggesting as few as 6 million couples would tie the knot, prompting local governments to hand out cash incentives.

China, Demographics, Social Trends, Marriage, Population Decline

9 points by paulpauper 11 days ago | 1 comments

Lead–Crime Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)
After decades of increasing crime across the industrialised world, crime rates started to decline sharply in the 1990s, a trend that continued into the new millennium.

Crime, Sociology, Social Trends, Demographics

8 points by segasaturn 21 days ago | 0 comments

Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds (variety.com)
Teens want movies and shows to stay in the friend zone.

Entertainment, Media, Teenagers, Social Trends, Research

48 points by Michelangelo11 26 days ago | 42 comments

Peak population may be coming sooner than we think (ft.com)
Peak population may be coming sooner than we think

Demographics, Population Growth, Predictions, Social Trends, Future

17 points by johntfella 27 days ago | 21 comments

UK's fertility rate falling faster than any other G7 nation (news.sky.com)
The average number of children women have in the UK is falling faster than any other G7 country since 2010, Sky News commissioned analysis has found.

Demographics, UK, Fertility Rate, G7, Social Trends

6 points by dustedcodes 39 days ago | 0 comments

Freemasonry in 2024: What makes young members decide joining a lodge is for them (slate.com)
What makes a guy decide to join a really old fraternal order in 2024.

Freemasonry, Social Trends, Fraternal Organizations, Demographics

4 points by Anon84 47 days ago | 2 comments

Bad service is a sign of a better world (economistwritingeveryday.com)
I’ve been hearing more grumbling about bad service in restaurants than usual, bundled with a growing nostalgia for when service was “better”. This could, of course, be simply a sign that my cohort and I continue to rise in age, but let’s put aside healthy skepticism for a moment and accept this observation at face value. What if service in restaurants, hospitality, etc is, in fact, lower in quality than it was one or two decades ago?

Customer Service, Social Trends, Nostalgia

10 points by paulpauper 55 days ago | 0 comments

Gen Z just overtook Baby Boomers in U.S. full-time workforce, by generation (twitter.com)

Generations, Workforce, Demographics, United States, Social Trends

9 points by toomuchtodo 59 days ago | 1 comments

Why has sexual choking become so prevalent among young people? (theguardian.com)

Sexuality, Social Trends, Youth Culture

13 points by howard941 81 days ago | 1 comments

Why So Many People Are Going "No Contact" with Their Parents (newyorker.com)

Family Relationships, Mental Health, Social Trends

22 points by Anon84 82 days ago | 29 comments

More people than ever are eating alone at restaurants (cnn.com)