Posted on 05/19/2019 9:30:20 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
A United States government report released last week showed a record low in the birth rate in the United States for women in their teens and 20s - the lowest rate in 32 years.
The report also showed that the total fertility rate in the US is expected to be 1.73 children per woman through their child-bearing years, a drop of 2% from last year. Last year's total births were 3.7888 million, which is the lowest since 1986. This is the fourth year that the birth rate has fallen.
The 1.73% fertility rate means that today's US generation is not having enough babies to replace itself. According to experts, a rate of 2.1 births is the baseline for the younger generation to replace the aging population. The US has not achieved this baseline in ten years.
The trend of lower birth rates was found across all races, including Asians, Hispanics, whites and blacks.
Some US demographic experts are concerned about future economic issues such as a smaller workforce and labor shortages just when the aging generation will require extensive elder care.
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They shouldn't have all quit smoking.
Liberals are celebrating....for real. They save it’s saving the planet. Ugh!!!
Governments and do-gooder NGOs told us for decades that this was a good thing, eminently to be desired and encouraged.
What? And make those tobacco growers actually grow tobacco instead of collecting subsidies?
Can’t they just spread the black plague in third-world countries? But nooo! They have to stigmatize baby making in the US and Europe instead. Not sex, which is still as popular as ever, if not more, but the natural consequences of normal sex. That they go after.
Liberal talking points:
1) OMG! There are too many people!!
2) OMG! There aren’t enough people!!
Not so much really. Turns out the younger generations aren't having that much sex these days. Growing up fapping to unlimited amounts of free internet porn has kinda diminished the real thing.
I blame career sluts.
And what is approx. # of the aborted?
You can bet that the Muslims are not aborting their babies.
Where is it written that a set # is needed to sustain this great republic? The article has been written in slightly different ways for a few decades....means NOTHING . Whoever calls America home and is here legally AND assimilates will never let our nation die as it is one of the last bastions of God .
They’re trying to say we need more aliens to replace us.
Deviant’s rights are accepted. Low childbirth rates of the native population. Many people tend neither to feel accountable for their actions nor respectful of the rights of others. Sounds like we’re in an extinction phase.
Well, then, do your duty, patriotic men and women. Fix bayonets! Forward!
Good! We have too much traffic already, and we will have robots to take up the slack.
There’s that and making more babies.
What’s that abortion number since Roe v Wade?
Well then promote infertility treatment and adoption then.
95 million out of the work force now. We keep adding over one million legal permanent immigrants a year. Automation is eliminating tens of thousands of jobs annually. We have added 49 million to our population since 2000. Not having enough people in the future is not a problem.
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