The West’s Baby Bust: Once ‘In God We Trust’ goes, everything else good is quick to follow.

American Thinker ^ | 11/26/2023 | Richard Kirk

[SeekAndFind]

I’m a big fan of Alex Berenson’s work vis-à-vis Covid, marijuana, and tech-government suppression of free speech (see Berenson v. Biden), but when it comes to his search for answers to America’s “baby bust,” he, like many others, fails to focus on the problem’s root cause.  It’s as if he were dealing with vaccines for the Wuhan virus without considering its gain-of-function lab origin. 

One fact that Berenson overlooks is that U.S. birth rates are following the same negative trend that’s been apparent for decades in Europe.  When Mark Steyn wrote America Alone in 2006, the birth rate among Western women in that continent was a catastrophic 1.4 per woman of childbearing age.  Meanwhile, Muslim immigrants were reproducing at a robust 3.5 rate, a demographic fact that led the now Hillary-dispatched ruler of Libya to predict that Europe would become a Muslim continent in a few decades.  The U.S. birth rate among whites at that time was 1.85 and 2.1 overall.  Today, America’s overall birth rate has declined to 1.78.  Population replacement value is 2.1.  

In short, the “baby bust” is nothing new in the United States and Europe.  So the cause of that phenomenon shouldn’t be reduced to a new-fangled linguistic construct like the “snowplow” parents Berenson ponders — parents who clear obstacles “before their kids even have to face them.”  One could also plausibly blame the Pill, various socio-economic factors, or the climate-change hysteria that’s prompted some women to forswear childbearing altogether.  But beyond these symptoms of cultural distress lies a tectonic shift that’s been taking place for well over a century, a change that Friedrich Nietzsche noticed and happily facilitated in the late 19th century.

[ASOC]

Culture is down stream of religion; politics is downstream of culture.

If you have nothing to believe in, your society will self-destruct.

[Myrddin]

The "baby bust" is a consequence of the COVID mRNA injections. Lower fertility. Miscarriages due to defects. The effects are seen in multiple countries. There is certainly an economic component as well, but the mRNA injections are the lion's share of the drop.

[Nervous Tick]

>> If you have nothing [RIGHTEOUS] to believe in, your society will self-destruct.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS. I ADDED [RIGHTEOUS]. ^^^^^^^^^^^

[daniel1212]

Yes, one of the most overlooked aspect of the decline of the West is that of the effects -and effects of effects - of contraception, as well as “abortaception.”