Nebraska – approximately 2.11
Alaska – approximately 2.00
North Dakota – approximately 1.91
Texas – approximately 1.85
Kentucky / Louisiana (tie) – about 1.84–1.85
Utah – around 1.80 (surprising)
Other relatively high: Indiana, Kansas, Arkansas, etc., around 1.79–1.83
SD snd Nebraska are more religious and have large Native American populations.
Both states have lower costs of living, particularly for housing, compared to more urbanized or coastal states. This makes it easier for families to afford children, with experts linking increased housing availability directly to higher birth rates.
And, afaik, they have a commitment to law and order, and pro-family policies (e.g., lower taxes and fewer restrictions on family life)
Only for humans can a pregnancy be an “accident”. What we need are more non-injurious and non-fatal accidents. However, more non-accidental pregnancies would be better.
A better title is which states are screwing around. IMO
19th Amendment. In the past people were FAR POORER, but working for decent money was not nearly as tempting, nor even available in most cases.
Bad weather states.
Or which are the top states that the baby boomers do not retire to?
Only 2 states above the replacement population rate which is typically considered to be 2.1.
What about Florida? We (wife and I) are doing our part...😀
I just have some anecdotal evidence of a few families I know.
In one family, the parents got married in the ‘50s, and they had four children. Of those four children, only two got married. Those two who got married produced two children. Those two children today are in their late 30s, and neither has children. That family line is dying out.
In another family, the parents also got married in the ‘50s, and they had three children. Those three children all got married. Those children had 7 children among them. Of those 7, only three are married. And of the three who were married, only one has had a child. A group of 7 children are producing only 1 for the next generation.
Another family, the parents got married in the ‘70s. They have four children. Of those four only two are married. Of the two who are married, they produced two children for the next generation.
Everyone think about your own families or other friends of the family, or others in your community. And see if the current generations or having children at the same rate as their parents and grandparents did.
All this talk about infertility and a recent upward trend in miscarriages, not necessarily mentioned in this article, have to have some correlation to something. I wonder what that something could be?
Surprised. I thought it would be New Somalia, Minnesota and West Somalia, Washington State.
So are these the dumbest women?,
most incompetent women that cannot use birth control correctly?,
states with the fewest murderous mothers?
States with the greater adherence to natural law?
Or just useless data that demonstrates nothing of value because abortion and birth control statistics are not included to intentionally hide the evil in our society.
It’s like tracking how much money is saved in bad neighborhoods, excluding robbery data from the mix.