Too many young people, both men and women, do not see marriage and family as important life goals.
How did we get here?
Are too many just overgrown adolescents? Do they just want to have fun in life, and not be responsible for children?
Do many, particularly young women, focus on career development, and they can’t see how they would ever fit a child into such career development.?
Do many wonder how the heck they will ever afford a house to make a home for children., considering how damn expensive houses are nowadays in many parts of the country?
Do many, both men and women, think they can just put off indefinitely making decisions about having children, then buy the time they do decide to try for children, their fertility has declined , and it just doesn’t happen for them?
I wish I could tell you, but I'm still writing that book.
/shameless tease
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
The number of people who are determined not to subject any children they would have had to the dysfunction they grew up with has been increasing for several decades.
We have been below a replacement birth rate since 1973 but the decline started well before that.
