Posted on 06/08/2026 6:02:55 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
The paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, notes that the fertility rate in the U.S. has fallen by 22 per cent since 2007, when the first iPhone went on sale in the country...
Until 2011, the iPhone was only available in the U.S. to subscribers of AT&T, allowing the researchers to compare birth rates in counties with near-universal AT&T coverage to counties with little or none in the four years since the first iPhone’s release.
Their findings suggest a striking relationship between iPhone access and declining birth rates...
As for why exactly this is, the researchers present three candidates. iPhone use reduces in-person interactions, provides more access to information about contraception and abortion, and provides more access to pornography.
Essentially, the smartphone is an unofficial form of contraceptive...
Another study, published in the scientific journal Child Development, found that fewer adolescents in recent years engaged in adult activities such as having sex, dating, drinking alcohol, working for pay, going out without their parents, and driving, and suggested a link to increased Internet use...
(Excerpt) Read more at theprovince.com ...
Attention is a drug most women cannot live without and social media is their drug dealer.
Eggplants ... that generates an impressive visual image. :-O
When the women are reaching adulthood and are chubby and are LONGING for attention, they’ll get it from guys that will just use them and discard them, then they’ll try crazy hair colors and tats, and EMO crap, just to get looked at, even if it is in a negative way.
Then two of those will find each other and BLISS happens.
They can find us by what we DON'T say!
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