Posted on 09/22/2014 6:50:14 AM PDT by wagglebee
Immigration, dude.
Had a discussion recently with some people about some related topics, and sex.
One older man said he married his girl because it was the only way he would get to do certain things with her.
Someone else said that girls who would let men have their way with them were ostracized and girls valued their reputation back in those days.
There seemed a consensus that sex and marriage and family were all tied together back in the old days, part of a package deal. And both men and women behavior was oriented towards that. Society was different and looked down on girls getting pregnant without a husband.
Nowadays none of the above applies, so it’s not surprising that when it comes to sexual behavior, both men and women are out of control, compared to the old days.
A myth.
Mexico is currently at 2.2 fertility rate, Honduras at 3.0.
Many Muslim countries, such as Iran (1.9), now have fertility rates lower than ours.
Most immigrants are in, or entering into their fertile years--- that is,they are mostly infant through 30, with a heavy chunk in the late teens/early 20's category and the "mean" age for females under 18; whereas for native-born Americans, the mean age for the females is over 38 --- way past prime childbearing years.
So no matter what the overall USA fertility rate is NOW, we can confidently predict it is going to go up as the native-borns die off and the immigrants --- well, do the math. Particularly the multiplication.
Then they'll get into the birth control-abortion-and-buggery program, i.e. the American Way of Life --- and the whole growth sector will be Mormons, Old-Order Mennonites, and --- oh yes, Muslims. Whee.
We have a responsibility to positively influence those around us and correct those attitudes that make having babies a negative thing.
One young neighbor of mine was questioning whether she should have another baby. She already had one really cute red-headed girl. I told her to go for it. Have another baby. She now has two of the cutest red-headed little girls I have ever seen.
My daughter graduated from a top-notch conservative college, the one that is always advertised. She and her friends are all having lots of babies. Most are on their third and a few have six each.
I call it "Mommy Mode."
We need to encourage those around us to see the beauty in more kids.
That 10% was supposed to be ~100%. Typo.
According to the 2000 census, this country had 281 million people. We now have 319 million. In less than 15 years we have added 38 million people to our population equal to the population of our most populous state, California.
US fertility rate has also been fairly stable since 1975.
In agricultural societies with relatively small governments the wisest thing for people to do is have lots of kids in order to have relatively cheap labor to help you farm your property, have children to take care of you in your old age, and have a lot of children so that if a few die off at an early age you still have a few left to farm.
In industrial societies with government managed (or mismanaged?) retirement programs children are a net financial drag. This is especially true if the government makes child labor illegal. Also, if childhood diseases have been put in check you don't need to have extra children around to last into your old age.
What people are finding out now, however, is that even with government managed health care and retirement plans, it still helps to have a younger person around to help older people navigate through all the paperwork in order to survive into old age. So I think people will want to try and have at least one child before they slide into dementia.
On the whole I think Feder has it backwards in a way. Birth control and abortion isn't causing people to have fewer children. Rather it is allowing them to have the fewer children they want because they don't need them anymore.
If the sexual revolution came without birth control and abortion then we would be seeing massive increases in population right now. With pretty much every part of the media telling us we have to be having great sex on a daily basis or else we are losers, if there were no birth control or abortion, there would probably be lots of orphanages or lots of people who started out having lots of "great" sex, but are now too tired from working three jobs just to keep all of their progeny fed.
Immigrants and their US born children drive 80% of our population growth. We take in 1.1 million PERMANENT LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ANNUALLY.
Keep a close eye on the nations in the southern hemisphere. Christian faith boom going on. The same nations that the west sent missionaries to, now is in turn are NOW sending the Christian missionaries to the west.
One death every 13 seconds
One international migrant (net) every 38 seconds
Net gain of one person every 12 seconds
So no matter what the overall USA fertility rate is NOW, we can confidently predict it is going to go up as the native-borns die off and the immigrants --- well, do the math. Particularly the multiplication.
Do you dispute the census data below?
**All we can do is focus on our own lives and our individual salvation.**
And live chastely.
The US fertility rate has bounced up and down some, but has been essentially unchanged since 1975.
A factor that is seldom discussed is that of WHO is having these kids. There is an inverse relationship in our society between number of children and what is generally considered success.
IOW, we are presently seeing reverse Darwinian selection. Superior reproduction by those who are less fit.
If men were marrying to “get sex” then isn’t that the same as the sexual hedonism the article is ostensibly calling out as part of the problem?
To turn things around, the USA needs a turbulent, vicious economic depression of biblical proportions. Nothing else will work. During the last true depression, churches were filled and people had no one to rely on except for God and family. It ended the debauchery of the roaring 20s or whatever it was. People started to see the truth again and returned to God. They became humbled and turned their lives around. The USA was a Christian, God-centered nation until the 60s sexual revolution and then it all started downhill again.
Really, as a nation we have become lazy, apathetic, greedy and incredibly self-indulgent. Taking away all that God has given us is the only way to bring us back to Him. Truth.
Adding a million legal immigrants a year plus illegal ones.
America was still America and much more livable in 1970, our population was just fine, we were headed to becoming a more advance, larger Switzerland.
The last 100 million people destroyed us as a nation, and turned us into a grubby bus stop of overcrowded cities and big government as our communities were destroyed, and we became a dog eat dog place of concrete and greed and short term gains and big city politics devoured states.
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