Posted on 04/27/2024 2:49:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
American women are giving birth at record-low rates.
The total fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, a 2% decline from a year earlier, federal data released Thursday showed. It is the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s.
The decline reflects a continuing trend as American women navigate economic and social challenges that have prompted some to forgo or delay having children. A confluence of factors are at play. American women are having fewer children, later in life. Women are establishing fulfilling careers and have more access to contraception.
At the same time, young people are also more uncertain about their futures and spending more of their income on homeownership, student debt and child care. Some women who wait to have children might have fewer than they would have otherwise for reasons including declining fertility.
“People are making rather reasoned decisions about whether or not to have a child at all,” said Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “More often than not, I think what they’re deciding is ‘Yes, I’d like to have children, but not yet.’”
Total fertility estimates the number of children a woman would give birth to in her lifetime. The estimates don’t account for what women actually decide in later years, said Brady Hamilton, a co-author of the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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No men in their lives. And no children. So yes, they're depressed.
I wonder what has happened to the rates of women wanting to conceive who can’t.
That’s one of the side effects of the Covid jabs - stillbirths, miscarriages, and infertility.
Abortion is still the buzzword for liberal women but I wonder if they’ve ever thought about the fact that they may have already been involuntarily sterilized.
Nah. They're just old.
People have high expectations of a perfect life and are unwilling to take risks of failure or disappointment.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
We married folks with kids have good lives. Not perfect lives.
Also, like Scripture says: unless the Lord builds the house, the laborers labor in vain. Hard to find love and sustain it in family life if you aren’t humble enough to ask for His help.
Yeah. Because of modern feminism.
The uniparty’s plan is to replace the declining birth rate with foreigners with no allegiance to the country under the pie-in-the-sky belief that they will one day pay more taxes than they consume.
Well, my oldest granddaughter is doing her part. She plans to have at least 4 children. Pregnant now, big brother Isaac will be joined by brother Levi in August, God willing. She and hubby are strong Christians who live by their faith.
“One can only lay the blame at the people in charge for the last 4 years. BidenFLATION, BidenOMICS etc.”
Young people are being priced out of owning a home and getting ahead due to inflation. Brandon didn’t cause the $$trillions deficit, but he made the money printing presses go brrrrrrrrrrr and is stifling fossil fuel production, which is making everything worse very quickly.
Congrats! You are blessed.
No problem - the borders are open.
Here you go...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241514/birth-rate-by-ethnic-group-of-mother-in-the-us/
Don’t worry. Millions and millions of foreign aliens are arriving to replace us.
Article:
Whites became the minority in 109 counties between 2000 ...
Pew Research Center
Aug 21, 2019 — Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast.
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The Hill August 7, 2023
Generation Z will be the last generation of Americans with a white majority, according to census data. The nation’s so-called majority minority arrived with Generation Alpha, those born since about 2010.
Barely two decades from now, around 2045, non-Hispanic white people will fall below half as a share of the overall U.S. population.
Guess you haven’t heard of the 4B movement.
https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/women/4b-movement-south-korea-viral-tiktok-388051
Drizzle, drizzle
That's not the problem. Hispanics in Florida and Texas are Americanizing. Which is why the Biden Administration decided to open the borders.
That’s a recent development in South Korea. They’ve had problems with their low birth rate for decades.
“I think this country will eventually morph into a version of either Russia or China.”
Pretty good call there, I think.
blame it on soy milk
But they dont need no man.
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