Posted on 08/08/2013 1:12:16 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The weak economy of the past five years could end up exacerbating a long-term trend toward more one-child families, as the cloud of financial uncertainty causes some parents to fret about the burden of taking on everything from daycare costs to college tuition for more than one child.
The percentage of women who reach ages 40 to 44 and have given birth to just one child has risen sharply over the past few decades, from nearly 10 percent in 1976 to nearly 19 percent in 2010, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data available. That age range signals the end of their childbearing years for most women, so researchers say it's a good measure of the increase in women having only one child.
It's common for people to have fewer babies when the economy slumps, and the current recession and recovery has coincided with a sharp drop in the nation's fertility rate.
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No worries... the hispanics and muslims are more than taking up the slack.
I wouldn’t want to bring a child into the world in this country now.
But if Uncle sends you a bigger check for having more kids, then you have a dozen.
Their birthrates are dropping first, just not as fast as the Anglo birthrate, and from a higher starting point.
” No worries... the hispanics and muslims are more than taking up the slack.”
4 -6 per welfare family....
Why? Just sign up for an EBT card and an Obamaphone & pop em out like hot crossed buns.
We are fortunate our great-greats and our grandparents didn't think this way, even in the midst of the First World War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War, when times were much, much harder than they are now.
If I weren't post-menopausal (if, if, if...) I'd have at least two more, to go with the two we have now.
Have kids now. Get them through this one bad patch, and they'll own the future. They will OWN the future. And they will be the best idea you've ever had.
We could only afford to have one child because somewhere out there are one or two others that we support with our taxes.
Well someone had better, or else this economy is never going to recover. Do you think retirees are economic workhorses?
Demographic suicide is economic suicide also. In fifty years the young DINKs of today will have ample time for reflecting on this, while wondering why their retirements look so impoverished — and lonely.
I saw a sign on the Methodist Church this afternoon: "To err is human. To blame someone else is even more human."
I grew up in a large family. My dad did not make much money (at least until he was finally able to finish his college degree by going back to night school at age 38). And it was the 1970’s, during the suck-arse Nixon/Carter economy.
My parents chose us over material things. My dad drove old cars till they just wouldn’t start no more. We lived in a sturdy but flawed older home in a working-class neighborhood. We did not take elaborate summer vacations.
Plus my mom stayed at home and did not have an outside job.
She cooked from scratch ingredients, and stretched the leftovers six ways from Sunday. And sometimes, the following Sunday.
All their kids grew up educated and successful, and they did manage to save enough for a comfortable retirement. It’s all a matter of the choices you make.
The couples in this article are choosing new cars, new homes and vacations over children IMO.
The politicians have made it so normal, hard-working, productive can’t afford to have kids.
But the slackers and the parasites can afford all the kids they want, and get sympathy for their troubles too.
The normal people get called racists and have their money confiscated.
Worried about finances, worried about health, worried about nuclear war, worried about the environment, yadda yadda. There’s always a justification for doing, or not doing, what one chooses, and saying “can’t” instead of “decided not to” drops a little of life’s responsibility off oneself and onto the Universe at Large.
And who needs more responsibilities ...
The couples in this article are choosing new cars, new homes and vacations over children IMO.
I think you’re on to something here. See a lot of single or two-kid families and they do indeed have multiple cars, big houses, and toys (rv’s, etc.). They’re not necessarily bad people; they choose material things over having kids.
I get all that, but the country is crapping out societally as well as politically and economically. I wouldn't want my children being caught up in the tumult that lies on the horizon.
And as a result the western culture of the USA will soon be replaced by something totally different. It is a mathematical certainty. When a civilization falls below its "replacement level" it will die out and there is nothing that can stop it!
In this dying country? No thanks.
The only people I see bitching about other people’s kids as though they have a say in the first place are those scared that the Tax-n-Spend Ponzi scheme is collapsing as a Ponzi scheme must have more people participating tomorrow than it has today.
A tough future is better than no future at all. Historically speaking, quitters don’t leave much of a mark.
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