The Russian Demographic Crisis: Resisting the Influence of a Sexualized Culture

Christian Post ^ | 13Aug13 | S. Michael Craven

[ReformationFan]

This past July, Russian president Vladimir Putin ignited outrage among the (primarily Western) pro-homosexual community by signing into law a ban on homosexual adoption. The new law also prohibits adoption by single parent households. Only a few days before, Putin also signed into law broad prohibitions against "gay propaganda," which included provisions that allow "the government to arrest and detain gay (or 'pro-gay') foreigners for up to 14 days before they would then be expelled from Russia" While these latter measures are no doubt draconian, they nonetheless represent a growing realization within Russian society, namely: sexual anarchy has proven devastating to the future of their civilization. Following the collapse of communism, Russia's fertility rate had fallen to a catastrophic low of 1.17 births to every woman of child-bearing age by 1999, far below the minimum replacement rate of 2.1 required to maintain population stability. Since then, Russia's birthrate has edged upward to 1.7 due in large part to pro-family policies, which were initiated in an emergency response to the pending demographic crisis. Many pundits, determined to avoid the moral realities, will point to economic decline as the primary cause of low birth rates, and this no doubt has played a role, but the greater factor has been the abandonment of traditional marriage as the principal means for regulating sexual behavior. As Russian society abandoned traditional marriage, birth rates dropped, out-of-wedlock births rose, contraception and abortion increased, and the traditional family began to disappear.

[JCBreckenridge]

Like I said - it takes a long time to undo changes that have been going the other way for 50 years. It’s not going to happen overnight.

[JCBreckenridge]

TFR is 1.61 in Russia.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html

Birthrate is 12.11 in Russia.

TFR is 2.06 in the United States, and the birthrate is 13.22

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

You are wrong.

[MarMema]

Pretty sure the orphanages are full though.

[ek_hornbeck]

Taking immigration into account, the American population is steadily growing, at a rate higher than the overall world population growth rate.

Yes, the US population is growing thanks to immigration. Most of that growth is due to third world peoples with low IQ, no education, no skills, and no prospect for economic or cultural development. Quality matters more than quantity - it makes no difference if the US population grows if that growth turns our cities into replicas of Mexico City slums.

We'd be better off with modest population growth or even zero growth while maintaining higher quality human capital.

[JCBreckenridge]

“Quality matters more than quantity - it makes no difference if the US population grows if that growth turns our cities into replicas of Mexico City slums.”

There’s no chance of this happening.

“with modest population growth” 2/3rds of the US current population growth is from immigration. The US needs a higher birthrate, not a lower one.

[ek_hornbeck]

There’s no chance of this happening.

You see it happening now, in real time. Much of our population growth is either third world immigration or the offspring of third world immigrants, and they're transforming our cities into a replica of the type of societies that they came from. This isn't the sort of human capital that benefits the nation or the economy in any way.

[JCBreckenridge]

Maybe white people should stop aborting themselves.