Gets in the way of their “kick ass” lives.
Sometimes it’s a self-centered lifestyle....sometimes they’ve read the news.
Maybe they don’t want their potential progeny to be delivered into a life of perpetual slavery by government.
Ask why pets now outnumber kids. But unlike the latter, they will not be there 35 years after birth. Other than consecration to God, the norm is marriage. But children take care, and being much a matter of delayed reward, being prosperous, selfish and with 12 types of contraception plus infanticide rights (20% of pregnancies) then short term gain, long term loss is preferred.
But devout Muslims will provide.
Humanity has entered Universe 25 (look it up).
Free stuff for everyone else raises the cost on those who actually work to produce. Furthermore, because of the growth of managerialsm non productive jobs have grown in salary and importance compared to productive jobs [much of which we have already exported anyway].
Geeze. You introduce birth control and what do you think is going to happen
Ijuts
• The enemedia's denigration of a family unit, consisting of a father, mother and children
• Delayed marriage by males (to go to college)
• Delayed marriage by women (to go to college and have a career besides being a wife and mother)
• Student debt (which further delays marriage)
• Easy availability of birth control
• Ease of divorce
• Urban living
Because they much rather “poke” cellphones all day and night.
Feminism, atheism, selfishness, short sightedness. Mostly women have rejected all manifestations of motherhood and femininity. But all these women will die surrounded by photos of them in Thailand, Machu Pichu, and of their pickaninny trip to save an African village.
Feminism. You spend three generations indoctrinating your best and brightest women into believing that they have something more important to do than being mothers, and this is the obvious and logical result. Western Civilization committed suicide by feminism. And it did it 40 years ago, the corpse just hasn’t stopped twitching quite yet.
YOLO mentality. I’ve even heard the parents of beautiful large families groan about having more.
If we were as prolific as we profess to be “pro-life” most of our political and cultural problems would not exist.
Contraceptives. Fewer people would have had kids in the past if the pill had been available.
Also, a lot of sacrifices are required and there’s no guarantee that your children won’t end up hating you.
With all the difficulties young people have forming relationships this is unlikely to get better.
As noted above, a side-effect of the Calhoun “Universe 25” that humanity has developed into.
Possibly a biological cue for organisms like us: an environment of abundance means we don’t “need” as many offspring to sustain the community, except that we’re overcorrecting. Malthusians/overpopulationists like to claim that we breed uncontrollably and overrun any place we spread into, but I think what we’re seeing with the population drop is a refutation of that idea; humanity does not act like a bacterium/virus, replicating without regard to resources. We seem to respond (albeit slowly) to our environment, and do not mindlessly outstrip our resources.
If the latter is a factor, then as population drops and societies begin to deteriorate, the humans that are left will have more kids as a response to the impetus to improve things again.
It’s no longer accurate to call the USA a “rich country.” The value of our money has eroded, the pres is giving away hundreds of billions, he has let millions into the country, and now we are poor.
And that’s why we are not having kids.
And that’s why the “poor and oppressed” are streaming into the country - to live off our money and to pop out a few million more babies that we will be supporting.
Don’t call us rich.
And France and Hungary have failed to reverse population decline despite pro-Natalist policies.
You see it everywhere. My hometown in rural upstate NY had a population 7,000 in 1980, and my senior class that year had 188 graduates.
The town’s population today is still at 7,000, but recent high school graduations have featured only 90-100 students.
Having kids throws you and your spouse into desperate financial situation over night. 2 working adults can take care of themselves quit comfortably. If they work their asses off with little free time. Modern society is anti family unless you are really rich or really poor.
Feminism. Divorce laws. The utterly destroyed dating field. To name a few.