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Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline
Nature ^ | June 19, 2026 | Martin Fieder and Susanne Huber

Posted on 08/11/2026 3:53:54 PM PDT by grundle

Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline


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To: MayflowerMadam

They just left the last class of the day at Clown College.


Now now I doubt they went to FSU.


21 posted on 08/11/2026 4:20:49 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: sopo

Well leftist women believe in abortion til birth anyway.


22 posted on 08/11/2026 4:25:58 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dfwgator

Now that's I'm in Denton I have to root for my dad's alta mater, the Aggies (he went to TX A&I), to end up second place in the SEC to my Gators.

23 posted on 08/11/2026 4:28:23 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: grundle

Good. Maybe they’ll go extinct.


24 posted on 08/11/2026 4:29:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: PGR88

Thank you for not reproducing.


25 posted on 08/11/2026 4:30:48 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: grundle

Ive been saying that, since 2020, the American right has been increasing its share of the population by about 0.5%/year. We should be up 3% and the left down 3%.


26 posted on 08/11/2026 4:35:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (When I go to the kitchen to find food, I get disappointed because all I find are ingredients.)
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To: lonestar67

except the entire primary and secondary school system in the USA is leftist. leftists are made not born.


27 posted on 08/11/2026 4:40:19 PM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: grundle

Well its hard to be upset about that. 😏


28 posted on 08/11/2026 4:56:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ckilmer

Homeschool.

Conservative parochial school. (Yeah, it’s tough on the budget - I had to decide between retirement investments and wifey and I sending our daughter to a good parochial school when she became a teen and past wifey’s ability to teach. (high school level) (-$$$)

We chose the latter.


29 posted on 08/11/2026 4:57:37 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: grundle

Excellent! (Air guitar)


30 posted on 08/11/2026 4:58:05 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: dfwgator
Now now I doubt they went to FSU.
31 posted on 08/11/2026 4:58:22 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: PGR88

My eyes!


32 posted on 08/11/2026 4:58:42 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: grundle

The growing numbers of homosexuals of both genders?


33 posted on 08/11/2026 4:59:18 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: PGR88

That gal on the right could be nice looking if she didn’t have such a morbid weight problem. Maybe it would have helped if she had a couple kids to chase after.

I wonder how happy she’s gonna be when she has an early heart attack.


34 posted on 08/11/2026 5:00:52 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The last birth cohort shown on the graph ends 1993, but the inflection point is 1973,Roe v. Wade, which, to me, means that kids in leftist households grew up preponderantly as “the only child;” that was strongly incorporated into the world view espoused by their parents through abortion, culturally as well. (There’s also the longer term trend with more univrsal tendency for families to tend toward replacement at 2 children) Although the oldest cohort is beyond child-bearing age, the youngest cohort is still having kids. I wonder whether the fertility decrement may also be related to leftist women , like AOC, delaying child bearing until late thirties /early forties .(This actually worked out ok in my family (4), but it wasn’t a matter of choice). Biology will reap an increasing toll, especially as the Fauci/ vax death spiral, greater leftist acceptance of vax during pregnancy, will intensify it. Well , they say in a few generations the Amish will outnumber everybody else.


35 posted on 08/11/2026 5:02:12 PM PDT by sopo
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To: DownInFlames

Maybe your last sentence explains your 1st sentence.


36 posted on 08/11/2026 5:02:14 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: sopo

oops, the final cohort showm ended 1982, not 1992, so they’re done child bearing also.


37 posted on 08/11/2026 5:04:11 PM PDT by sopo
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To: chajin

Texas A&I (now A&M-Kingsville) are the Javelinas.


38 posted on 08/11/2026 5:10:46 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks. That picture shows exactly why this is happening.


39 posted on 08/11/2026 5:12:49 PM PDT by chud
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To: T.B. Yoits

When your child realizes that you murdered his siblings to the cheers of other Feminists, and that it could just as easily have been him you murdered, don’t be surprised when he wants nothing to do with families or having children.


40 posted on 08/11/2026 5:13:23 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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