Posted on 07/01/2020 5:47:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How can America be great in the future with fewer babies every year? In the long term, no way, José. The average number of kids per U.S. woman has dropped from 2.12 in 2007 to 1.71 in 2019, the lowest ever. In the case of whites, it's 1.61. This baby deficit continues to grow, and with it, America's greatness potential shrinks. The U.S. share of world births is one third less than in 1960. This looks good only compared to Europe, where the decline is one half less.
Immigrants haven't provided a sufficient solution to the social undermining that entails too-low birth rates in any developed nation, even in the United States, a nation that still has worldwide comparative advantages to attract high-skilled workers from other countries, with its buoyant economy, high-tech industries, limited welfare state, and powerful cultural draw.
Fewer children have many consequences. Accelerated social aging is one of them. Half of Americans in 2020 were 38 years old or younger, a median age that is 10 years higher than in 1970. Two factors account for this aging: fewer children and a longer life expectancy. By far, the first of the two is the more important contributor. Aged societies, non-dynamic by essence, face a terrible dilemma: either they transfer an increasing share of wealth created by a shrinking working population to the elderly, or the growing ranks of pensioners are poorer and with deteriorating health care. Fewer children also contribute to another problem: loneliness. Fifty years ago, 5% of Americans lived alone. Now, 11% do.
Internationally, a shrinking demographic weight endangers America's leadership. In 1900, Europe (including Russia) had 25% of the world population; now that that is less than 10%, it is an increasingly marginal geopolitical player. China has more than four times as many working-age people
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Both my mother and father grew up on farms in the early part of the 20th century. Both families had 10-12 children with one or two dying young When grown, those children had one or two, usually two children. One had three. With a few exceptions, the children of those children had one child, with a few exceptions. So I can see the declining birthrate in my own family.
It's interesting to me that the family that had the hardest, deprived childhood (3 children) turned out to be the one that achieved the most wealth and success. Learning hard work and thrift pays off.
I noticed that. Hordes of angry, hollow females in their twenties.
I would if it were me choose Costa Rica. Mild climate, easy to learn language, moderate cost of living, closer to the U.S., etc.
And you just might be able to keep a gun in the house.
In 2018 there were 8,526,000 white kids with one parent which is 2 million more than black kids in similar circumstances. Not only are we having fewer kids but more don’t have two parents. The feminist movement stifles any negative coverage of simgle mother families but it has the same negative effects on whites that it has on blacks. We have more poverty and crime and fewer productive citizens to go to work. This is a formula for social disaster.
I took 3 years of Spanish, and am currently using Pimsleur for Spanish. No matter what, I’m scoping Costa Rica on my next vacation.
“Birth control allowed women to become more promiscuous, like men”
To generalize:
Birth control allowed women to become more like men.
Another factor: women can do most jobs that men once did. For instance, operating a bulldozer requires only the flicking of the wrists and pedal touching, and a lot of their cabs are air conditioned.
Kids used to be useful to the parents as they aged but not much anymore. The kids were needed back then, especially the men. Now they are merely desired (or not desired).
Ive seen the claim that the first person who will live to 200 has already been born. So imagine how much worse your scenario is going to get!
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