Posted on 07/05/2022 6:17:50 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The mysterious thing is not that people are having fewer kids. It’s that they’re still having as many as they are.
Numbers first. In late January the Office for National Statistics noted, in an “ooh that’s interesting” kind of a way, that in 2020, for the first time, half of women in England and Wales remained childless by their 30th birthday.
In economy in which wages barely rise, a huge pile of debt if they’re a graduate and a housing market in which the only way to attain secure housing is to buy but the only way of buying is to inherit money, move a long way from the best jobs markets or, preferably, both. Throw in the cost of childcare, often compared to a second mortgage — which, given the size of mortgages these days, is no small deal — and the whole venture seems prohibitively, terrifyingly expensive.
Is it any wonder that people might not want to have children when they’re living in a shared flat, or don’t have room for them, or know they can be evicted at almost no notice? Or when they can’t see how they can afford a kid if they don’t keep working, but don’t see how they can afford to keep working if they have a kid?
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If you’re not having kids then you are turning the world over to the people that are.
Women still had children during the Great Depression. I know, I know, “the pill” hadn’t been invented yet.
Americans who have kids are selfish and uncaring about the planet and repulsive pro lifers, but illegals who invade and have many kids are virtuous. /s
Muslims don’t seem to have a problem with sucking it up and still raising large families. At this rate they will simply breed us out of existence.
Failure of successful people(s) to multiply could be our peril over the long term.
The Experimental Gene Therapy shot made the “Why should” question moot.
Those that took the shot(s) had that decision removed from them.
Alcohol?
Dont understand kids are often a byproduct of sex?
It’s a whole new world people....
In 2019 - the year before Covid arrived - the birth rate for foreign born Americans fell below the replacement level.
That was the first time that happened since American birth and immigration records have been kept.
I’ve thought about it in terms of carbon being added to the atmosphere.
Leftists go on and on about how evil we are for doing it at higher rates than 3rd world people. Some even suggest we kill our selves.
Then these SAME leftists Cheer when another 2-3 million illegals come in from 3rd world nations and immediately increase their carbon footprint.
—Leftists are nothing if not hypocrites—-
Me, a few years ago.
In the words of a Muslim woman to another in a political cartoon: “They blow up so fast.”
Unfortunately they also take a lot of innocent people with them when they “blow up so fast.”
If the government is genuinely concerned about the birth rate there are things it could do: make renting more secure, or invest massively in childcare or, hell, even reform planning rules to build enough new family homes.
No. The only way to inspire people to have more children is for government to get out of their lives. Nobody wants to raise a child in an Orwellian dystopia.
“people might not want to have children when they’re living in a shared flat”
People had kids hundreds of thousands of years ago, back when they had no clothes and huddled around a fire at night terrified that the lions might come by for a meal.
At least when they had no clothes they were halfway to having children.
The birth rate during the depression was a record low that was not matched again until 1980.
Women actually keep their knees together when food scarcity, economic woes and social anxiety all occur at once.
Declining birth rates since 2020…
The Experimental Gene Therapy shot made the “Why should” question moot.
Those that took the shot(s) had that decision removed from them.
Have you seen the Amazon series Utopia? THat’s the exact plot. Maybe it wasn’t fiction.
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Society is collapsing.
One US Senate candidate today said the Founding of this Country is awful, and he’s his parties front runner.
Another State Senator candidate twerked upside down for Votes.
Institutions like Schools hate the country.
Politicians are trying to erase traditional America.
It’s going to crash, Debt is mathematically out of reach, and they’re sending Ukraine whatever they want while the same Politicians say that Social Security Retirees are going to have to accept less $$.
One Ruling Class, one State run Media, and the rest are peasants.
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My Grandmother was 1 of at least 3 children, and she was born in 1926. I say at least 3 because I don’t know if she had any other brothers or sisters. Good luck getting women nowadays to have 3 children.
Maybe read the article before posting?
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