This is the single greatest crisis that mankind has ever faced and not only is nobody talking about it, the left wants to accelerate it.
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While I admire the thought and effort, and I’m always up to fight the good fight, we are highly outnumbered, dying off and have few weapons.
Possibly...and I can’t imagine a mechanism by which to turn the tide. Once that cat got outa the bag, there’s no recapturing it. The movement will serve to work in such a manner that the cultural marxists won’t reproduce themselves. So, humanity will decrease in numbers. But we’ve seen this at work in Europe and what we’ve learned is that as societies become wealthier, their fertility rates decline past the replacement level. Then, of course, to fuel their economies, they resort to unbridled immigration policies. So, by way of its very success, Western Civilization is set for self-extinction.
No surprise then certainly that Hollyweird and Cable TV have recently celebrated Kinsey, Masters and Johnson in their works.
The third world is producing plenty of children to replace us old fogies. When I go to the grocery store and see the families with EBT cards and 5 or 6 kids in tow I have no worries I won’t be replaced.
Women no longer NEED men, hence far too many no longer desire marriage; that is the problem. Women have government safety nets as a substitute for men, and are now free to engage in promiscuity without consequences. Men have of course adopted to the new norm, and the majority also do not want marriage, since they can get sex whenever and wherever they want-- we have a culture of hedonism. How to go back? Eliminate all forms of social welfare, for a start. Eliminate no-fault divorce next. I don't now how we can bring back morality, but that would help as well.
Au contraire. Birth rate dropped more from 1955 to 1965 (5.5 births per thousand), prior to the Sexual Revolution, than from 1965 to 1975 (4.5 births per thousand).
http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/fam-kids.html
Drop in birth rates has been a continuing process since 1800. Here's a graphic.
http://lamarotte2.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-steady-drop-in-crude-birth-rate.html
No big change in the pattern can be seen in the 60s, coinciding with the sexual revolution, just a continuation of the drop, starting about 1955, that was a result of the end of the Baby Boom.
I agree in general with the author's POV, but wish he'd use accurate data to support his position, not just make stuff up.
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.
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.
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.
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.