CDC: U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women

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[TigerClaws]

(CNSNews.com) - The birth rate in the United States hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a report released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The 2011 preliminary number of U.S. births was 3,953,593, 1 percent less (or 45,793 fewer) births than in 2010; the general fertility rate (63.3 per 1,000 women age 15-44 years) declined to the lowest rate ever reported for the United States,” said the report.

[stuartcr]

How do things get changed if someone doesn’t crank?

We can spend all our time complaining and giving the same old suggestions, but it ain’t getting anything done about the problem, is it?

[stuartcr]

Wasn’t that folly exposed from the very beginning?

[stuartcr]

They already take a lot.

What have I said, that makes you think I am enamored of govt solutions? Right now, the only thing we have is a govt solution. How are those 1M+ illegitimate babies/yr going to live if not for the govt?

You got a solution that has a chance of happening before these kids become adults and do it all over again?

[stuartcr]

How do we do that?

[subterfuge]

Ha, ha! I guess you have a point.

[stuartcr]

I know

[donna]

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
- Karl Marx

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/quotefeature/marx.shtml

[dfwgator]

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” - Karl Marx

"Feminism was created so as to give unattractive women access to the mainstream of society." - Rush Limbaugh

[Boogieman]

You’re being far too logical. Don’t you know that, somehow or another, it’s all mens’ fault? Always is.

[thefoundersrock]

40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women

That is a number that will doom this country - and you can thank Democrats (Progressives) for it.

[Ohioan]

It all started with Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle was right and years later Candace Bergen basically admitted that Quayle was right.

It didn't start with Murphy Brown. The real exponential explosion in illegitimacy rates--both White & Black--came with the agitations in the late 1950s & 1960s. I tracked the social breakdown in that era, and published articles on it.

The most obvious cause was the Egalitarian bias in American Education, which taught children that the older members of their families' thoughts on proper behavior were rooted in "prejudice" and could be safely ignored. The process can be described as "trashing grandma," and served to "free" young women of both major races, from standards of behavior that had favored traditional marriages as opposed to promiscuous breeding.

William Flax

[PapaBear3625]

And, who did the preacher blame? The men, not the women. In his opinion the root of the problem is the constant pressure from men (both boyfriends and fiancees) that breaks down the woman’s will.

Women are more likely to leave the congregation in a huff if they dislike the preacher's message. Instead of focusing so much on women and calling them names, maybe we should take a look at the men and their attitudes.

The problem is, it just takes one (busy) man to impregnate a hundred women.

[dfwgator]

The problem is, it just takes one (busy) man to impregnate a hundred women.

[PapaBear3625]

Yes. I see lots of threads like this, with no realistic solutions, so I ask if there really are any solutions that have a real chance of happening. If people are going to complain, they should be asked if their suggestions will work. Maybe someone will come up with an actual solution. I am all for most of the suggestions here, even mandatory sterilization after the first illegitimate child, I just would like to know how people think they will actually happen?

If we let things go the way things are, until finally the system breaks down, we will have civil war. Eventually the underclass will be exterminated. Is that your preference?

[stuartcr]

Why would that be my preference?

What should be done and how do you propose doing it?

[PapaBear3625]

Like I said before: tighten welfare requirements, make it a hard-and-fast rule that you get off after 5 years, educate the electorate about how much they're paying in welfare costs.

Get enough taxpayers pissed off, and it will happen.

[stuartcr]

Those are good ideas. How do you educate the electorate and get enough taxpayers pissed off enough?

[Melas]

Poorly chosen, Laz. I’m going to give you credit and assume that your intended message is more about the slogan, “Work will make you free” than a suggestion that we put these people in death camps.

[shove_it]

No problemo. Liberals are all for birth control. Just make obligatory tubal ligations an adjustment to the administrative procedures of President Mitt's welfare program. 0bama got away with stuff like this all the time.

[Brookhaven]

You definitely missed my point.

Pre-marital sex (and pregnancy) is as much a problem within the church as it is in the world.

“The problem is, it just takes one (busy) man to impregnate a hundred women.”

Do you really think men for the most part are virtuous in this area? That it’s men that want to wait till marriage, but women are pressuring the men to have pre-marital sex? And, on top of that, that it’s only a few men that crack under the pressure from women to have sex? Really?

As I understand it (I am a male, so I’m going off what this preacher said), most women in the church that lose their virginity prior to marriage (even if it’s to their fiancee) regret not having waited. And, most say they didn’t wait, because of pressure from the man.

If we can’t fix this problem in the church, we can’t fix it in society in general. If we can’t do a better job of pointing out the benefits of waiting (and dangers of not), then we won’t fix the problem.