Usually when people talk about the low birth rates in places like South Korea and Japan or developed countries people make the argument that raising kids is unaffordable and that home ownership is out of reach for a lot of the youth. However, a lot of European countries have strong welfare systems and generous maternity/paternity policies and some eastern and southern European countries even have very high home ownership rates so there must be something about modernity that disincentivizes the traditional family unit. So what are the deeper cultural reasons for low birth rates beyond economic factors. As an additional point is there any way European society can reverse this trend?