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America’s Baby Crisis Is A Bigger Threat Than The Pandemic
The Federalist ^ | May 29, 2020 | Nicole Russel

Posted on 05/29/2020 7:53:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/29/2020 7:53:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
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The glamour of abortion may have something to do with it.


2 posted on 05/29/2020 7:54:47 AM PDT by BEJ
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The glamor of abortion?


3 posted on 05/29/2020 7:56:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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everything is bigger than this alleged pandemic


4 posted on 05/29/2020 7:57:42 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Kaslin

When those benefiting from so many of God’s Blessings decide to “manage” the gift of life, the earlier blessing are left to rot.


5 posted on 05/29/2020 8:00:17 AM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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You shouldn’t create children if you don’t have a job and can’t afford it.

I hate to see it.But that lesson has finally kicked in.


6 posted on 05/29/2020 8:04:07 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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I think a lot of people wouldn’t want to bring children into this world when you imagine how America is going to look in 50 years


7 posted on 05/29/2020 8:09:01 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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The problem is not a lack of babies.

The problem is a lack of white babies.

It’s racial suicide. And women are to blame for it.


8 posted on 05/29/2020 8:11:03 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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No wonder young men today are not dating and foregoing sex and going to porn.

Have you seen the loudmouthed, drunken, tatted up, pierced and fat Western women out there?


9 posted on 05/29/2020 8:11:19 AM PDT by setter
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Well, societal and socio-economic conditions in most of the Western World these days aren’t actually conducive or encouraging for most folks to want to start families. Likewise, there are very VERY powerful disincentives to marriage.

If either or both of those problems could be tackled, the birth rate would mostly solve itself.


10 posted on 05/29/2020 8:11:32 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Expect a spike in childbirth around the holidays. People were just sequestered at home for 60 days.


11 posted on 05/29/2020 8:24:45 AM PDT by lurk
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I think birth control is a factor, because modern birth control is very effective when used properly.

Is part of it that people get set in their ways, and their life is a certain way, and they can’t see how children would fit into their lives? This is especially true for women climbing the career ladder, I suspect. Women and careers where they are expected to work late or travel a lot simply cannot see how a child would fit into such a work-life environment.

And let me give equal time to men as well. MEN who enjoy their bachelor Lifestyles may not want to get married in the first place. And if they do marry it is possible that a childless lifestyle is what they want.

Part of this is that fertility declines for both men and women as we get older. So if couples in their late thirties or early forties decide that now is the time in their lives to start having children, they may find that they cannot conceive.


12 posted on 05/29/2020 8:24:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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It always takes 2 to make a baby. Even if it’s by artificial insemination.


13 posted on 05/29/2020 8:27:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
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That is true and is a shame.


14 posted on 05/29/2020 8:28:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Even if women can afford babies, they still won’t have children if they don’t actually want them.

It would ruin their hard-won careers as Chief Diversity Coordinators at GreenPlanet, Inc. :)

15 posted on 05/29/2020 8:30:12 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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[[[Economists believe millennials “have been slower to form families than previous generations” because they are less financially secure.]]]

[[[Experts have also chalked up the fertility decline to millennials having far more options in their adult lives, such as travel, career, and even how to spend their money.]]]

Which one is it?


16 posted on 05/29/2020 8:35:39 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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Millenials were educated to believe that having children is dangerous to the holy ‘Mother Earth’ what with carbon footprints and all. They think having children is selfish because that’s what they’ve been taught or indoctrinated into believing.

Well, here’s something I learned in high school: All life on planet earth is carbon based. This whole lie about carbon dioxide being pollution is nothing but a death cult.


17 posted on 05/29/2020 8:38:12 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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I once had a couple in my car and they just had been married. The subject of children came up as they asked if I had any. So I turned the question around on them and asked them. They said they were going to wait. They had been the leftisdt propaganda about the world being over-populated, blah blah. In 2016, I was in the midst of schooling when I cam across some very stunning facts about how the Western countries were not producing sustainable numbers to maintain their indigenous population. At the time Canada needed two children per married couple to meet his demand. Canada birthrate was around 1.5 children per married couple on average. The United states needed the same rate, approximately 2.2 children per married couple on average, but at the time was just under that by having a rate 1.9 children per married couple on average. This rate around the Western countries has been steadily decreasing while the rate of children per married couple in developing countries were increasing. This tied into the immigration and emigration issue on how at the time Canada stated they needed immigration to sustain the current population.Based on the rate of children per married couple, this was true. Not only abortion that has decimated the populations of Western countries, but prohibitive reproductive policies and access to the medications preventing pregnancies have decimated the sustainable populations over the Western world. The interesting tidbit here was that China’s one-child policy was overturned because the leaders in that country saw the light and knew that if they continued the policy their population would also be unsustainable. Most don’t know China overturned this policy.

In the end, Canada was right that it needs immigration to sustain its population as it was too far along for the indigenous population to recover. The United states is getting closer to that point of no return. When the couple left my car, they thanked me and stated they were going to change their plans on when they have children. They were in their mid twenties and stated in the beginning they were going to wait 5 to 7 years before having children. When they left they said they were going to reduce that time.


18 posted on 05/29/2020 8:46:00 AM PDT by zaxtres
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I actually believe it isn’t about the over-population issue but more of an economical and career issue and that was from the research I came across several years ago on the issue. Couples are just waiting longer now to have children due to wanting to have money and career. This in turn limits the rate of births by married couples. The other issue is that at the time I was doing my research the lamestream media came out with a study that said that the older the man is and the woman is the more likely they are to have a child who would not be healthy and have some sort of disorder due to the parents age, for example the woman was over 40 and the man was over 45.

I believe that scared the millennials but since they are waiting to have children later in the marriage combined with the fear of having a child with a significant disorder once they passed a certain age, this in turn limits the number of births per couple.


19 posted on 05/29/2020 8:52:53 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Kaslin

They see it that way.


20 posted on 05/29/2020 9:02:56 AM PDT by BEJ
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