Posted on 06/05/2018 10:06:00 PM PDT by Morgana
Women aren’t having kids because of the president – according to one “motherhood clarity” therapist.
On May 31, The Washington Post weighed in on the “child-free life” and “Why so many American women are deciding not to have kids.” Inside the piece, columnist Petula Dvorak outlined multiple reasons, including President Trump.
Dvorak centered her piece on a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics that showed a “sinking” U.S. birth rate. In 2017, only “3.8 million babies were born,” she wrote, which was the “lowest number in three decades.”
There are “plenty of reasons,” wrote Dvorak, from the wage gap to paid leave for new parents. And then there was President Trump.
“What about a Trump effect?” she asked. According to marriage and family therapist Ann Davidman, it’s affecting the birth rate.
“I talked to one therapist in left-coast California who specializes in helping women decide whether they want to become mothers,” Dvorak said of Davidman. “She said a potential client canceled her spot in a class right after the election.”
Davidman remembered that woman leaving a message declaring, “When Trump was elected, I didn’t need your class to decide.” She’s not alone. According to Dvorak, Davidman has “heard lots of versions of that.”
That’s because Davidman has access to “hundreds of women struggling with motherhood” as a “Motherhood Clarity Mentor” online.
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In a 2017 blog, Davidman revealed that she herself is “delighted—overjoyed, really— that I do not have a child.” For undecided women, she suggests they “go deep inside and ask” two questions: “Do you want to be a mom?” and “Do you want to raise a child, or do you want to contribute to the next generation?”
But does it have to be an either-or situation? Davidman forgets that raising a child doesn’t just contribute to the next generation; it creates it.
Correct, the number of Christians who will be having children will still be an ongoing rise. Most people have no idea about the birth rates for fundamentalist Christians (Baptist, Catholic, etc.) because they do not normally report every birth and quite a few do not even put in for SSN’s until the children are of age.
It seems like left leaning folks are not having children. That is great news.
Trump derangement syndrome is real........and a serious psychological disposition!
Yet another horrible, projecting leftist who places blame on others and not herself. Same goes for her clients.
JoMa
Feminazi leadership going back to Margaret Sanger herself have said NO MORE BABIES (even if a woman wants to become a mother).
The sisterhood is on a death trip and wants everyone on board.
Cultural suicide.
If only my wife and I could be younger, she would be holding on to the sheets with all of her might for several years until we had about 7-8. It would certainly be more winning.
This is good news—the more brain dead Lefty fools reproduce the better for society. I swear...most of these Liberals are complete Idiots and should be sterilized to protect the gene pool.
“.....the more brain dead Lefty fools reproduce the better for society.”..........
Perhaps I missed your point but didn’t you mean to say, “.....brain dead Lefty fools FAIL TO REPRODUCE the better for society.”????
Just send in the Laz. He’ll impregnate every California women who even thinks about having a child. That’s conception.
Believe in wind pollination?
Or the immaculate reception?
This article misses the main reason child births are down. Men have come to the realization their children are really NOT theirs. Men today have no right or say about their kids in today’s civil court system. They’re routinely ripped out of their lives by the courts and saddled with exorbitant child support payments. Is it any surprise men have decided to NOT play. I know, where have all the good men gone? They’ve wised up and choose to be single and keep their house/possessions.
Yes-—posted before first cup of coffee-—
I thought was due to globull warming starting in the 90s acorrding to Al Gore.
“When a generation of war is coming women pump em out, when faced with a generation of peace, slow it down.”
That’s interesting. Did you invent that, or is it truly an old wives’ tale?
Democrats not breeding = evolution.
Not very professional to make conclusion like that on completely anecdotal observations. Why does she have to mix her politics with her responsibility to finding real ills her clients may have?
Yes, and she totally omits talking about the data for that year just being part of a larger trend since the 1980s. The birth rate has been sinking for some time, and any intellectually honest person would outline the numerous cultural reasons behind it, not a one off, like DJT as the POTUS. How she can say something so unintelligent is beyond me - and I would consider seeking a new therapist.
No kidding. It turns people who are normally rational to total psychotics whenever DJT is raised as an issue.
This, if accurate, is the manifestation of mental illness.
These folks should be pitied, and cut out of mainstream society.
You know who else should be cut out of mainstream society? The editors who green lighted this leftist cray cray article. they are the unseen enemy of our country and culture.
I’m thinking Dyke.
Is this suddenly a problem with the left? They hate babies, except in their salad.
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