Legitimate young Americans are not having have kids because kids costs a fortune just to deliver....Then house feed, cloth, insure etc...Most these young people in the U.S. today are making 1990s wages with no heath insurance...
The next 10 years are going to be brutal for housing, heath care, pharmaceuticals, boating, insurance...All the big ticket stuff... etc....Simply due to the fact the up coming generations don't and wont' have the flipping money for any of this....
These big industries in the U.S. are going to nose dive in a very big way.
No joke.
My reasons for not having children aren't financial; if I had ever gotten married I suppose I might have felt differently, but I simply have no desire to have kids.
More power to those that do...if my tax dollars aren't subsidizing them!
I seriously disagree with your assessment. Out here in BFE, PA it seems like every female starts breeding at 15. You can tell who they are because they are the same ones with tattoos on their right tit which is, of course, displayed via a low cut top.
Undoubtedly they have birthed 3 offspring from 5 different sires, and are standing in line ahead of you, paying for groceries with a SNAP card, while yacking on her cellphone about her upcoming court appointment to up child support from the latest sperm donator.
While I agree birthrates amongst the 20 to 30 year-old educated middle class demographic is depressed for the reasons of financial and life status insecurities you listed, the entitlement class of welfare receiving, Democrat voter perpetuating breeder sows is still quite fruitful.
And don’t underestimate the effect that the Draconian (for males, that is) family/probate courts and laws factor in the decline in the American-American birthrate.
That’s led many males (me included) to say; “No way in Hell am I wading into that den of a thousand deaths.”.
Putting aside the national debt, it will take a minimum of five years before we emerge from this recession. There is no reason to think that Democrats or Republicans will make any meaningful cuts to government before a Reaganesque president is (hopefully) elected.
On top of that is the debt problem, which is a disaster waiting to happen.