Posted on 05/07/2025 6:58:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The White House is very concerned with young people’s babymaking. President Donald Trump is considering ideas like a $5,000 “baby bonus” for new moms to encourage a baby boom, a step down from an even more ambitious $5,000 child tax credit idea from Vice President JD Vance, a longtime evangelist for encouraging more kids. “I want more babies in the United States of America,” he declared in his very first public speech as vice president.
“Pronatalism,” the belief that the government should directly address America’s falling birth rates, is not inherently conservative, but it’s rapidly gaining momentum in the MAGA movement. In addition to Vance, the crusade to Make America Have Babies Again has a strong supporter in Elon Musk, who practices what he preaches.
But Trump and his allies’ plans for a “baby boom” do not line up with what people of childbearing age in this country are saying.
According to a Harvard Institute of Politics Youth Poll conducted in March, less than half of young adults under 30 say having a child is important to them. In a list of life goals, having kids came in last for the young people surveyed by the Harvard poll.
In theory, adding some kind of tax benefit might help — 86 percent of young adults say financial security is important — but in my experience interviewing fellow Gen Zers, and researching polling data around their decisions, cash remedies do not address the root causes behind why young people are having fewer children. Something more fundamental has changed, both in how women view their own lives and how they relate to men — and conservative men, specifically — that a bigger refund can’t solve.
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The WP is wrong and snarky about it, as usual.
All of the above and more: Obviously, in the past a lot of kids were born because couples were not thinking particularly of “kids”, they were thinking of “sex”. But, birth control and abortion have short circuited the natural result of the reproductive urge (desire)...
And, if couples are looking at it from a financial standpoint, the energy and time put in is not remotely “covered” by a measly $5k per year. Getting a 2nd, part time job, or, if possible, working a lot of overtime, makes far more financial sense.
"Sorry, Republicans?" Evidently, she's not sorry. But then again, maybe David Hogg will ask her out for a date......
My little brother and his wife had 5 kids. My brother was not particularly political, but his wife has always been extremely liberal and that is the way the kids were brought up. His kids are now in their late 20s to mid 30s. They are all married. Not one of them has any plans to have any children. They all claim that it is bad for the environment to have children. I am not sure if this is the real reason, but that is what they say.
My wife and I had only three kids, but they have given us eight grandkids. And one of our grandkids and his wife have been trying to start a family but have been having difficulties.
Things are certainly different now than when we baby boomers were kids. Most of my friends growing up had at least three kids in their family and many had quite a few more than that. There were kids all over the place... now it feels like the kingdom on the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie. My wife and I see very few kids when we are out and about. We almost always compliment the parents of children we see and thank them for having children. The world is not the same without them.
Maybe if the women looked less …. Ugly, babies would be flowing off the assembly line.
Coupled with the fact that white women are becoming more less desirable with the self-center, social media, drama lifestyles. Not to mention the body art that is becoming ridiculous and immodesty. My youngest (26) says he doesn’t want anything to do with white American girls, too much baggage.
Actually, America just needs more American babies. It's obvious that cash assistance results in more foreign babies. Astroturf B****. And in a generation, there won't be a dinosaur media, public schools, or allegedly higher ed to push the DNC talking points.
Nonstop propaganda from the Left.
‘Are too many just overgrown adolescents? Do they just want to have fun in life, and not be responsible for children?’
That’s the exact reason, right there.
That’s why the education leviathan pushes so hard to program the children.
He should be okay as long as she's from a rural community and raised in a religious family. And yes, if she did not get educated at an university.
Getting an education is not a bad thing. But getting indoctrinated? Yes, it is.
…and I’m old enough to remember when Republicans rightly derided that concept as creating welfare queens.
Childless Cat ladies are scared their membership may start falling.
I’m an old man but I have the impression that the current generation doesn’t know how to relate to each other very well. I look at social media, which occupies hours of young people’s lives every day, and I see men and women drawn to two entirely different universes. TikTok and facebook is mostly loopy females, and gender bent males. Guys are in for video games, porn, and youtube. Political sites are mostly conservatives = male; liberal/progressive= female and the above gender anomalies. Watching groups of adolescents on occasion, I have seen the meme of literally an entire group sitting together but each absorbed in his/her phone, with no one saying a word to anyone. jmho.
i prefer that we have more white babies, nothing wrong with that.
Christians are most likely to have these children; coupled with killing the Dept of Educ more Americans may be willing to raise children without the DNC Marxist Indroctrination pushed by a Govt Dept.
I hope more faithful godly married parents have more children in general yes.
Breeding human beings as commodities, increasing welfare rolls, and forever trying to make people turn out well without a good father and mother is mind numbingly stupid and cruel.
Women were sold on the idea that having a career was more important than being a mother.
The fact is, women flooding the workplace, doubled the available pool of labor.
Economics 101: The more supply of labor, the lower the wages, thus making it mandatory for both parents to work, just to get by.
My grandson is marrying an Asian gal (adopted from China with a sister)...no tatoos that I know of...very reserved and lovely...
All these leftist women ranting against economic relief for young moms don’t understand something - no one is asking them to have babies. No one wants these people having babies. The relief is aimed at young conservative women and couples who want children, to ease the financial burden of having children a bit.
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