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

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

Nordic countries top many global comparisons of wellbeing and equality. Raising kids while both parents work full time is relatively easy today; economic uncertainty and unemployment, which may cause people to postpone having and raising kids, have retreated during recent boom years.

Yet, fertility has been falling in all Nordic countries. At the lower end, the total fertility rate fell to 1.43 percent in Finland in 2018, leaving scientists and politicians scratching their heads. The fertility rate measures the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime, and a fertility rate this low has a significant impact on the country’s future demographics.

Initially, there would be less need for daycare and schools, implying a cost-saving for taxpayers. But the shrinking working-age population together with an aging population would make the welfare state unsustainable in coming decades.

Finland and other Nordic countries are not alone in this issue. Fertility typically falls with economic development, and many developed countries have even fewer babies than Finland. Falling birth rates in high-income countries have been explained, in part, by higher education and more attractive careers for women, who continue to be expected to do the majority of childcare and housework. Having to choose between jobs and motherhood, many women will keep working or try to have their first baby at an older age, when they feel secure about their careers and personal finances. MORE AT LINK

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KEYWORDS: babies; birthrate; finland
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They still haven't figured it out.
1 posted on 09/07/2019 7:58:01 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

The more socialism and the less Christianity...

Means less babies.


2 posted on 09/07/2019 7:59:07 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: ransomnote

Is this a trick question?


3 posted on 09/07/2019 8:05:15 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ransomnote
This is a mystery?


4 posted on 09/07/2019 8:06:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: ransomnote

Warnings on this situation by Mark Steyn ages ago.


5 posted on 09/07/2019 8:08:11 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: ransomnote

When the courts are stacked against men, when marriage offers nothing but slavery and misery for all but the top men in money and looks, when the women have been raised to SJW harpies, and when men are told they’re evil from the time they are children...some things are going to go wrong.

Women are the gatekeepers to sex. But take note, men are the gatekeepers to marriage, and the gate is staying closed.

These SJW types are going to grow old and die alone, unremembered. It is their greatest natural fear and it’s going to come true. When they finally realize they need to “settle” the men they mistreated in their youth won’t want them anymore.

This will literally take down our society. Nothing I can do but watch it burn from a safe distance.


6 posted on 09/07/2019 8:09:23 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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When the courts are stacked against men, when marriage offers nothing but slavery and misery for all but the top men in money and looks, when the women have been raised to SJW harpies, on and on..."

It's Saturday night on Free Republic.

7 posted on 09/07/2019 8:14:54 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ransomnote

Kleptocracy finally crossed a critical threshold.


8 posted on 09/07/2019 8:15:57 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
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To: ransomnote

Birth control and abortion and high tax rates.


9 posted on 09/07/2019 8:16:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: ransomnote

Where did all the babies go? Seriously?? omg...we are doomed.


10 posted on 09/07/2019 8:16:17 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: ransomnote

The population of the US has increased by 49 million since 2000. We have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants since 1990. We don’t have a population problem.


11 posted on 09/07/2019 8:16:17 PM PDT by kabar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Idiocracy


12 posted on 09/07/2019 8:16:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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I say its the men who don't want attachments...many are still mommy boys with out a clue as to what life is except studding around or jerking off to their favorite hottie on the computer....

their sperm counts are low as well as their testosterone......they don't play sports....they watch them....too dangerous for the little darlings....

but they think any normal looking young woman is not good enough for them..they want the silicone sisters..

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

13 posted on 09/07/2019 8:17:03 PM PDT by cherry
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without reading the article, does it ever refer to the average number of abortions women in these countries are having?

The answer would go directly to the cause of the number of live births they are having.

As an aside, is it any wonder these countries are importing Muslims like the Romans imported slaves? Which indirectly led to the eventual downfall of Rome.


14 posted on 09/07/2019 8:17:59 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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The student debt is probably scaring potential parents.


15 posted on 09/07/2019 8:18:59 PM PDT by entropy12 (Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.)
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“The population of the US has increased by 49 million since 2000. We have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants since 1990. We don’t have a population problem.”


We have a conquest by immigration problem.


16 posted on 09/07/2019 8:20:13 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
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To: ransomnote

THe problem:

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


17 posted on 09/07/2019 8:22:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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Where did all the babies go?

Are you kidding me? Is this a trick question?

The Pill has prevented most pregnancies. Those babies who were conceived have been murdered at an astounding rate for the past 50+ years.

That's where all the babies went, especially those with "white privilege".

18 posted on 09/07/2019 8:28:37 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( crawl up inside the)
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Where did all the babies go?

ABORTION.

19 posted on 09/07/2019 8:37:21 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whpose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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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.


20 posted on 09/07/2019 8:43:00 PM PDT by socalgop
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