Posted on 02/24/2025 2:44:54 PM PST by daniel1212
[...]a team of economists from Wellesley College and the University of Maryland published a working paper that focused on a peculiar puzzle facing the United States: declining birth rates.[...]
Those economists concluded that one of the biggest factors was shifting priorities among younger Americans — away from raising children and toward career and travel aspirations.[...]
t’s no secret that families with children are the easiest pathway to ensure that a church, mosque or synagogue will be able to sustain itself for decades to come. But which traditions are doing a good job of having children, and which ones aren’t? And what does that tell us about the future of American religion? [...]
Looking just at people between the ages of 35 and 45 years old — when fertility peaks — it’s clear that Latter-day Saints and Muslims are far above average. The typical American is the parent of about two children. For Mormons and Muslims, it’s closer to three. Christian groups fall right around the mean, and it’s worth pointing out that Protestants have the same number of children as Catholics on average.
Over half of Protestants and Catholics are over the age of 50.
(Excerpt) Read more at religionunplugged.com ...
The author Ignores the embrace of contraception as much being a social "sacrament," the "cure" that can kill a country and church.
Biblically, one is either to choose to be celibate and continent, or to be married and bear all the children God enables, as a product of a temperate lifestyle.
More stats: https://onlybyland.com/fastest-growing-religions/
ping
Hopefully Muslim becomes zero sooner rather than later
Hindu numbers can’t be right. Most Indians are in arranged marriages where their have intense desire for grandchildren.
Do they have a further breakdown, perhaps by various protestant churches?
Some “protestant” churches are very “woke”. Some are very focused on the word of God.
Lots of small children at the Church I attend.
The author assumes current trends will continue.
They almost always change. A 25 year projection is only a reasonable guess, if nothing dramatic happens.
Lots of very dramatic things are happening.
Somewhat related:
“MAGA Is the New ‘Rage Against the Machine’ for GenZers Tired of ‘Establishment’ Democrats”
“.... GenZers and other young people are seeing conservatism as cool and, dare I say, counter-cultural. It is an idea that has been emerging for quite a while. Cooper says that GenZers are tired of being taunted and called racists. Are they beginning to see that progressivism has no interest in their freedom of speech? As GenZers graduate from college and escape the academic bubble of progressivism, they want to do things like buy a home. But, for many GenZers, the real-life concept of a bad economy is creeping in on the fantasies of progressivism.”
thanks alot to the globalist open border neoCONs like G W MORON and co. who admonished main street america not to be a bunch of ‘racists’ who oppose mass 3rd world non-Christian immigration.
Now our grandkids can grow up in a sea of false religions thanks alot you SOB traitors.
In Canada, the TFR is only 1.26 children per woman. But here in southern Alberta, the Latter-day Saints have a lot more children than average. I have seven myself, but most families have 2-4 children. I’d be curious to know the actual figure though.
We need to end all immigration from Muslims and Hindus. They don’t belong in America.
They don’t list Zoroastrians. The only Zoroastrian couple I know has one child, now a young adult, so evidently no more planned. That makes for a figure of 1.00.
Natural selection? { snicker }
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