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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I read somewhere that we have the highest proportion of single moms per capita than any country in the world. Yes, it’s a huge problem.
Tucker Carlson recently (maybe Monday evening) had an alarming segment about falling sperm counts--if they continue to drop it will become a real crisis. His doctor friend (Siegel?) who appears regularly on Fox cited various possible causes besides pollutants in the air, such as marijuana use.
And white women have fewer.
I guess because they don’t like white men?
For the last sixty years these clowns have been preaching to the youth of this country that this is the worst time and place in the history of the world to have children. So now they are surprised that after generations of this brainwashing people actually believed them?
You convince all the kids that they’re homos and trannies and you wonder why there’s fewer babies? Did these “experts” sleep through biology class?
Declining birth rates is very serious...can’t see how you can say bastardy is worse.
For the last sixty years these clowns have been preaching to the youth of this country that this is the worst time and place in the history of the world to have children. So now they are surprised that after generations of this brainwashing people actually believed them?
World Population isn’t falling, not by a long shot, and won’t for the foreseeable future. But birth rates across the world are declining as prosperity increases. It always seems to work that way. Even in much of the “third world,” birth rates have been approaching bare replacement levels. In the US we have not been replacing losses with babies alone for a number of years. All US population growth for a couple decades can be attributed solely to immigration.
i.e. Capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme.
Which is why morality is required. The Market will not correct for human faults and frailty.
Capitalism requires more people in order for companies to make profits and stock prices to go up. Socialism requires more people to pay for the safety net. Welfare State Capitalism (which is what we got) needs it doubly.
Either there are more consumers or each consumer buys more. But consumers are now so far in debt that there's no hope there either.
the World population keeps going up
the ism doesn’t matter
the world is not in danger of a declining population from any metric we’ve seen comparing births and deaths
plus these very same fearporners on this are the same people who are population reductionists or zero pop growth people, to begin with
“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.”
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That’s right... it’s far better to have your line end up extinct. That will show ‘em.
I’m due in two months.. working from home was very productive for us!
>People will be dying in their late 80s in 2100 who haven’t been born yet.
That would be quite a trick. You might want to check your math.
Sounds like it was normal-ish until the lock downs began. It makes sense to not want kids when you have no idea if you will have a job, what kind of job, etc. and don’t know what the future holds.
Honey, I’m still home!
Congratulations, God bless you.
I read only today that 4% of the world’s children right now are white.
According to ....all commercials, white women do not like white men at al.
Muslims and Indians are still bonking like rabbits, unfortunately.
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