Posted on 05/20/2020 8:42:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The number of children born in the United States has hit its lowest level in 35 years, according to new federal data, as demographers worry that a baby bust that emerged after the Great Recession is becoming permanent.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report Wednesday that 3.7 million children were born in the U.S. last year, down 1 percent from 2018 and the lowest total number of births since 1985.
Birth rates dropped among women of virtually every age and race group, though they rose among women in their early 40s, the CDC found. Birth rates among teenagers dropped substantially, hitting record lows. The rate of teenagers giving birth has dropped by a whopping 60 percent since 2007, and by 73 percent since 1991.
Since the recession, the birth rate has risen year-over-year only once, in 2014. Now, demographers tracking the declining birth rate say the trend is beginning to look like a longer-term pattern.
"The fact that births and fertility continued to decline in 2019 despite the booming economy suggests that this is a permanent shift to a lower fertility regime in the U.S.," said Cheryl Russell, a demographer and contributing editor to the journal American Demographics.
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wait til all the quarantine babies are born!
The low abortion rate is fantastic. There is readily available contraception and birth control. This no doubt interferes with the sale of aborted bodies and is why PP is so desperate to find more “choice”. I bet if we really knew how much money was at stake, it’d make our heads spin.
My cousins in Europe told me a few years ago that having children, more than 2, is considered a status symbol. So, over there, the tide has changed. Hungary for example now rewards people for having children.
Studies have shown that religious-oriented married couples enjoy more frequent and more satisfying sex.
So there's that.
Well only in public.
That’s a good question Meaty.
Let me answer it.
1985 was the apex of the “abortion is no big deal, the pill is even better” world that came out of the ‘70s.
Relatively few people questioned either, and the first big wave of women in the workforce was still not yet 10 years going. Basically started around ‘77.
By the end of Reagan’s first term, the Rats had not managed to dislodge him with Iran-Contra, and the pro-family message he pushed no longer seemed anachronistic, as people started thinking about the headlong rush of liberalism that started in 1965.
Leastways that’s how I remember it.
Amen about college. I homeschooled mine with college prep in mind although it was not required of them.
I told them work hard, save, get good grades, and do things that get you access to grants and scholarships. We signed for student loans with the understanding that the student would pay them back (some risk, sure, they could get severely ill or have an accident, then we’d have to pay).
My perfectly happy kiddos went on to a BS in physics, an EMT certificate, a BS in Computer Science, a BA in English Lit and a cosmetology degree.
I never paid a dime. I did support them with free housing, food, utilities while they did community college stints.
We went on no real vacations and went out to eat maybe twice a year. Well worth it.
And they all vote properly oh yes they do my fellow FReepers.
Just anecdotally, I continue to be appalled and amazed at the number of young women I know from work, daughters of friends, friends of my daughter, etc. that proudly announced that they never intend to have children. They have done a number on the young women of AmericaAnd taught them to have nothing but contempt for having babies.
“America’s overall fertility rate has been about 2.1 births per woman, which is barely replacement level. For conservative Protestants, including Evangelicals, the number used to significantly higher, at 2.7. Today, that has dropped to 2.3.”
Ok this is good y’all but we can do better.
Pretty much. And women are majority democrat voters because of the “right to choose” nonsense. Young women are so afraid of not being able to shed unwanted pregnancies, they ignore all other issues which actually affect their lives much more. Unwanted pregnancies are rare events. Taxes, crime, foreign wars, small business regulations, etc are real issues which affect everyone every day.
That was my thought. 7 - 8 months from now will see a big uptick in births.
There might be a covid boom.
Maybe.
Heat and light will kill the covid virus for the summer.
Shame on you,telling your kids that.
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Study does not include illegal aliens ?
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Yeah, should a told them I’d cover the bill huh?
Education these days is 95% of the time, money into a toilet.
Huh?
Thats OK they are bringing in 1 million immigrants per year plus 2-3 million illegals. No problem.
We have eight.
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