[Sicon]

“If we do not address not only the rate but the balance of who's having kids and what they're inculcating in those kids we're screwed.”

Hate to break it to you, but we’re already screwed. There’s a reason “prepping” became a big thing over the past 15 years or so.

[ansel12]

As a species we are seeing the role of women demonstrated in two ways, the destructiveness of the female unnaturally replacing the male in the male domains outside the home and the destructiveness of the female not living her natural role in a home, its killing us at both ends.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I like the macro-perspective of the article.

The root is education and TRUTH. The USA was founded on TRUTH, as in “we hold these TRUTHS to be self-evident…” TRUTH has increasingly been removed from government, education, economics, morals, media, and even sports.

The root of TRUTH is the Bible and Jesus Christ. "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:31b-32 NKJ) “Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.”” (John 14:6b NKJ)

The article didn’t discuss possible productivity increases through IT, robots, and AI. Without a moral foundation, such productivity will be consumed upon lusts delay but not solve the problems discussed.

[wildbill]

Mark Steyn addressed the demographic danger we are facing years ago in a book America Alone. It has been proved to be frighteningly accurate.

[Sequoyah101]

The short version of this is: We are already screwed.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

In truth, America has been dead for nearly a generation now. The zombie keeps stumbling along, but to mix metaphors, the politicians and bureaucrats are devouring the carcass of former Golden Goose as fast as they can. Because it isn’t lasting much longer.

[Magnum44]

If we do not address not only the rate but the balance of who's having kids and what they're inculcating in those kids we're screwed, and we do not have years or decades to do it either.

General "Buck" Turgidson: Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

[Steven Scharf]

From CNN:

There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.

I don’t know what the point of the underlying article is as it provided no facts other than the initial statement from CNN which actually just copied a CDC statement.

The 54.4 number could actually go up as the number of “females ages 15 to 44” is decreasing and will continue to do so for the next several years.

[I just spent about half an hour trying to find the data to support the above statement only to find the opposite for the next 5 years. If you push the current populations five years forward (with no growth), it should have shown a decrease, but it actually shows a slight increase in 15 to 44 age population with the decline happening 10 years out.]

That is why I don’t take everything posted here at face value.

[bassmaner]

It's no wonder people aren't having children when there's possibility that parents could lose their kids to the state if a boy tells teacher that he's really a girl.

Rein in the totalitarian impulses of state CPS agencies and allow parents to parent, and birth rates will rise.