Posted on 03/03/2021 7:32:01 PM PST by semimojo
New data is confirming a baby boom that some doctors expected was actually a "baby bust." Health departments in more than two dozen states provided records to CBS News, showing a 7% drop in births in December — nine months after the first lockdowns began.
Researchers say it continues a much bigger plunge in fertility in recent decades.
The number of babies the average woman in the U.S. is expected to deliver has dropped from nearly four in the 1950s to less than two today...
While the global population is still growing, a major study published in The Lancet in 2020 predicted it would peak in 2064, and then fall by nearly a billion people by the end of the century — the reason being, fewer babies.
The U.S. is already below the so-called "replacement level" by some measures, meaning fewer young people to support the country's otherwise aging population.
"We need to have enough working-age people to carry the load of these seniors, who deserve their retirement, they deserve all their entitlements, and they're gonna live out another 30 years," he said. "Nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people to deal with."
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We can hang on by selling more to the rest of the world, which is growing for now, but we need to rethink our long term strategy.
Multi-generational bastardy is a much bigger problem than is falling birthrates.
Much bigger.
Global wombing!
Its not a crisis
Theres no requirment we must produce more and more people
We have no crisis making new people
The population is rising despite covid fearporn and the world ending in 9.8 years
Why are we worried when the world ends in less than 10 years according to the climate nazis?
Less people equals a lower carbon footprint.
The “scientists” and “experts” should be celebrating.
A falling population is far preferable to flooding the third world in. And it MIGHT be better than these woke America-hating deviants breeding.
The silver lining is that the Americans we don’t want to breed aren’t, and the ones we want are more likely to.
We can make something out of that result if we get the chance.
True. And the falling birthrate/population “crisis” is always pitched to us as the reason we need millions of Mexicans, Africans, Indians and orientals flooding in.
We kill 4000 per day. In case the Collectivists are wondering where the people went.
Multi-generational bastardy is a much bigger problem than is falling birthrates.
Much bigger.
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very true.
Kind of a shame that we’re not seeing a population increase coming out of a time when most of us had nothing to do but each other...
The Dems are way ahead of you. They’re covering any birth shortage by bringing people in from other countries.
It’s okay, it’s all rainbows!
Put some birth control pills in that boys Pez dispenser.
They’re not going to over populate Mother Earth, no sir—only 9 years left.
Bill Gates probably orgasmed when he read this article..
What do they expect after teaching 2 generations of schoolchildren that they are the biggest threat to Mother Earth, Gaia?
Then add to that that western civilization is the most destructive force on the planet.
They got their wish. Planet earth will be populated only by primitive people. Dream come true. How is this a disaster? It’s a little late to tell millions of millenials “Just kidding”.
“Nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people to deal with.”
Ummm. . . try China. They were counting on us to support them, but somehow they also thought that if they destroyed our economy and civilization, everything would be just hunky-dory.
Maybe someday these “elitists” will rub a few brain cells together. . .then, maybe not.
Well, I had 4 kids and my oldest is 24 and getting married next year and his girlfriend wants LOTS of babies.
So I’ve done my part!
It’s grandparents who encourage grandchildren to get married and have children. And from this data I can tell I’m not the only one holding back. The hellhole is forming... and I don’t want my line ending up in chains.
Thus, leftist will find their offspring and their fatalistic views in the vast minority in 20 years. Welcome to the jungle!
FREE BABY MURDERS FOR EVERYBODY...but we are running out of babies. So do they want more babies so Planned Barrenhood can kill more and make more money, or what.
I think it's just the way societies go as they get more prosperous. Low child mortality, not needing lots of kids to work on the farm and not having to depend on them to take care of aging parents have all led to lower birth rates throughout the West.
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