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Where did all the babies go? Falling birth rates imperil our future
thehill.com ^ | 09/07/19 | PASI KUOPPAMÄKI

Posted on 09/07/2019 7:58:01 PM PDT by ransomnote

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To: ransomnote

Mark Steyn discussed this at length in “America Alone” 13 years ago. He believed that nihilism and hedonism that arose out of the two 20th Century World Wars led people to have fewer babies. I always thought he was onto something there. Our material wealth, our seeking of pleasure outside of progeny, our increased leisure time, and our self-centeredness tends to put people off from being parents.


21 posted on 09/07/2019 8:44:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ladyjane
It's Saturday night on Free Republic.

LOL. You are a sage.

22 posted on 09/07/2019 8:46:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ransomnote

Just one more way to destroy the country


23 posted on 09/07/2019 8:48:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: cherry
I say its the men who don't want attachments

Can't blame them.

Women are constantly telling men they ain't worth s--t and they need to discover their "feminine" side and get rid of their man caves.

So no wonder men today turn to Internet porn or Real Dolls.

24 posted on 09/07/2019 8:50:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: ransomnote

Historically, 10% of women hit menopause childless. In the U.S. and much of Europe, it is currently 20%. Some are naturally sterile or choose not to have children, but a large number are involuntarily childless. They prioritized career and politics, then tried to find a partner when they’re past their prime. A few are single mothers by choice.

And many ended up alone while blaming men for not being interested in a 35 year old independent feminist relative to the 25 year old one without baggage.

Of those who do have children, biology means most have one child instead of the 2-3 they wanted. And others are single mothers who have just one, whereas if they had a devoted husband, it would be 2 or more.


25 posted on 09/07/2019 8:58:36 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Feminism and social justice doesn’t excise the maternal impulse. That’s why I’ve had women argue that they are a pet parent while dressing up a pet as if it were a baby.


26 posted on 09/07/2019 8:59:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ransomnote
Not to worry... The Africans are multiplying at a record pace.


27 posted on 09/07/2019 9:06:10 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Could this have something to do with it?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3773015/posts


28 posted on 09/07/2019 9:09:15 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: tbw2
Saw another idea why on Twitter tonite-that I hadn't pondered, but is related. Young middle class/upper income adults now have observed their parents, and frazzled families, with both parents working, and the hurry/scurry and tension that comes from working, parenting, and taking care of a house.

And they are saying, "Screw that." Even if they do have kids, they want nothing to do with having more that 1 or 2.

29 posted on 09/07/2019 9:20:35 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: kabar; SunkenCiv; Liz

63 million taxpayers and adults and mothers and sisters and grandmothers were aborted since 1973.


30 posted on 09/07/2019 9:22:58 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Farcesensitive

Immigration drives 80% of our population increase. By 2043 non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population, down from 63% today, and 89% in 1970. Half of the children 18 and under are minorities as classified by the USG.


31 posted on 09/07/2019 9:23:05 PM PDT by kabar
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To: ladyjane
'It's Saturday night on Free Republic.'

Well, when you step into the pig pen, you gotta expect to get muddy. LMAO 😆

32 posted on 09/07/2019 9:27:34 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: Pappy Smear

The other issue is the risk of having child protective services or the police called on you for not hovering over your child. That you risk having the law come down on you for letting a 6 year old play in the yard or an 8 year old walk to the park by themselves.


33 posted on 09/07/2019 9:33:38 PM PDT by tbw2
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34 posted on 09/07/2019 9:39:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ransomnote

Well, I can think of 62,000,000+ ideas since 1973 as to “where the babies went” in this country.


35 posted on 09/07/2019 9:48:51 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Every liberal should be red-flagged.)
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To: ransomnote
"Where did all the babies go?"

Are you kidding? Look at the creatures around us. Yuk! I took a vacation from civilization for a generation, and... What are they? They look like that Jabba the Hut character from the Star Wars movie. Where did they come from?

36 posted on 09/07/2019 9:56:55 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Farcesensitive

Folks who write about this stuff call it “The Great Replacement”.

One country has figured it out—and tightly controls immigration—while having a birthrate of over 3.

The article tells you who they are.


37 posted on 09/07/2019 9:58:11 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: cherry

“these are the people who will rue the day they passed up on good moral lovely women who are attractive but not barbies... ”

These good marriageable women are 1) a minority of the female population and 2) get married by age 22 or so, give or take a few years.

The world is not the same as it was for the older generations. What you believe is reality is not.

A lot of those men passing on marriage are doing so not because no one meets their standards. They’re doing it because they’ve made an evaluation that it’s not worth it based on the available potential wives.

They are, more often than not, correct.

Your statement about regret for these men going into old age betrays a misunderstanding of the differences between male and female psychology. While growing old alone is a fear for both sexes, it looms much larger for women. Men are generally able to find meaning through means other than forming a family. Women, not nearly as much.

Not to say that millennial men don’t have their own set of problems. They do. Inaccurate evaluation of their relationship risks and benefits are not among them.


38 posted on 09/07/2019 10:33:37 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: gaijin

“THe problem:

1. Islam
2. College
3. Welfare
4. Feminism
5. Secularism”

This basically nutshells it. Especially 4 and 5. The rejection of God and the acceptance of foolish teaching has damaged an entire generation way past the point of any recovery.


39 posted on 09/07/2019 10:36:53 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: socalgop

“Yeah, it’s bleak but i don’t know what alternative we have. Hopefully western civilization can be rebuilt from the ashes of our gender politics in places like Poland or Hungary with American refugees.”

Nothing to do. Just let it burn. There is no fixing it now.


40 posted on 09/07/2019 10:38:54 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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