Posted on 09/22/2014 6:50:14 AM PDT by wagglebee
Editor’s Note: The following address was delivered by Don Feder, communications director for the World Congress of Families, at the International Forum: Large Family and the Future of Humanity in Moscow September 10-12, 2014.
If current trends continue, we won’t run out of energy or other natural resources in the foreseeable future. We will run out of people. This global catastrophe will be the result of rapidly declining fertility, known as Demographic Winter.
In 1960, worldwide, the average woman had 5 children. Now, that number is 2.6 and falling – in other words, a decline of almost 50 percent in a little more than 50 years. Today, 59 countries with 44 percent of the world’s population have below-replacement fertility. Many developed nations have fertility rates of 1.5 or lower, with 2.1 needed just to replace current population.
This didn’t happen spontaneously. Demographic Winter is the direct result of the Sexual Revolution – which first became noticeable in the late 1960s, not coincidentally, about the time birth rates began to fall.
The dogma of the Sexual Revolution – which has become ingrained social wisdom in the West -- might be summarized as follows:
The prophets of the Sexual Revolution include Sigmund Freud, “researchers” like Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, pornographers like Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, and feminists like Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, and Simone de Beauvoir. In the United States, the Sexual Revolution is spearheaded by groups like Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, the (homosexual) Human Rights Campaign, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS).
The impact of the Sexual Revolution on fertility cannot be overstated.
For the first time in history, just under half the world’s population of child-bearing age uses some form of birth control. By 2015, the global contraceptives market will generate an estimated $17.2 billion annually.
Overwhelmingly, this is financed by governments, businesses or international aid agencies. Other species have become extinct. Ours may be the first to finance its own extinction.
Worldwide, there are approximately 42 million abortions a year. That’s more than twice the number of military deaths in World War II.
From a demographic perspective, we’re not just losing 42 million people annually, but also their children, grandchildren and other descendants down through the ages. We are, quite literally, aborting our future.
The flight from marriage has affected fertility even more profoundly than contraceptives. In France, in 2010, more people began living together than married.
In the United States, in 1960, 59 percent of 18-to-29-year olds (those in their prime childbearing years) were married, compared to only 20 percent today.
Once a central reality of existence, marriage is increasingly optional. In its place have come cohabitation, casual liaisons and out-of-wedlock births. Not surprisingly, fewer marriages – especially early marriages -- result in fewer children.
Just as Demographic Winter is the result of the Sexual Revolution, the latter is the result of something called Cultural Marxism – a movement associated with Antonio Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse.
Cultural Marxism was their answer to the failure of worldwide revolution after the First World War. Gramsci believed family and church gave workers what communists called a “false class consciousness” that made them immune to the appeals of Marxism.
The solution, then, was to destroy the family and religion – and what better way to do that than to foster sexual license and a society oriented toward mindless pleasure and away from hearth and home.
While there’s no proof that dramatically declining fertility is what Cultural Marxists wanted, it’s the natural consequence of creating a highly eroticized society where family is viewed as an obstacle to self-fulfillment and children as a burden.
We won’t find our way out of the forest of Demographic Winter until the Sexual Revolution is overthrown -- its prophets exposed and its dogma debunked.
Ultimately, the Sexual Revolution is about death – abortion, contraception, sexually-transmitted disease, pornography and promiscuity, in place of marriage, fidelity, procreation, and responsibility.
To combat both the Sexual Revolution and Demographic Winter, we must embrace a philosophy of life. For does not the Bible tell us: “I have set before you this day life and death, blessing and curses. Therefore, choose life so that you may live – you and your children.”
Immigration, dude.
Had a discussion recently with some people about some related topics, and sex.
One older man said he married his girl because it was the only way he would get to do certain things with her.
Someone else said that girls who would let men have their way with them were ostracized and girls valued their reputation back in those days.
There seemed a consensus that sex and marriage and family were all tied together back in the old days, part of a package deal. And both men and women behavior was oriented towards that. Society was different and looked down on girls getting pregnant without a husband.
Nowadays none of the above applies, so it’s not surprising that when it comes to sexual behavior, both men and women are out of control, compared to the old days.
A myth.
Mexico is currently at 2.2 fertility rate, Honduras at 3.0.
Many Muslim countries, such as Iran (1.9), now have fertility rates lower than ours.
Most immigrants are in, or entering into their fertile years--- that is,they are mostly infant through 30, with a heavy chunk in the late teens/early 20's category and the "mean" age for females under 18; whereas for native-born Americans, the mean age for the females is over 38 --- way past prime childbearing years.
So no matter what the overall USA fertility rate is NOW, we can confidently predict it is going to go up as the native-borns die off and the immigrants --- well, do the math. Particularly the multiplication.
Then they'll get into the birth control-abortion-and-buggery program, i.e. the American Way of Life --- and the whole growth sector will be Mormons, Old-Order Mennonites, and --- oh yes, Muslims. Whee.
We have a responsibility to positively influence those around us and correct those attitudes that make having babies a negative thing.
One young neighbor of mine was questioning whether she should have another baby. She already had one really cute red-headed girl. I told her to go for it. Have another baby. She now has two of the cutest red-headed little girls I have ever seen.
My daughter graduated from a top-notch conservative college, the one that is always advertised. She and her friends are all having lots of babies. Most are on their third and a few have six each.
I call it "Mommy Mode."
We need to encourage those around us to see the beauty in more kids.
That 10% was supposed to be ~100%. Typo.
According to the 2000 census, this country had 281 million people. We now have 319 million. In less than 15 years we have added 38 million people to our population equal to the population of our most populous state, California.
US fertility rate has also been fairly stable since 1975.
In agricultural societies with relatively small governments the wisest thing for people to do is have lots of kids in order to have relatively cheap labor to help you farm your property, have children to take care of you in your old age, and have a lot of children so that if a few die off at an early age you still have a few left to farm.
In industrial societies with government managed (or mismanaged?) retirement programs children are a net financial drag. This is especially true if the government makes child labor illegal. Also, if childhood diseases have been put in check you don't need to have extra children around to last into your old age.
What people are finding out now, however, is that even with government managed health care and retirement plans, it still helps to have a younger person around to help older people navigate through all the paperwork in order to survive into old age. So I think people will want to try and have at least one child before they slide into dementia.
On the whole I think Feder has it backwards in a way. Birth control and abortion isn't causing people to have fewer children. Rather it is allowing them to have the fewer children they want because they don't need them anymore.
If the sexual revolution came without birth control and abortion then we would be seeing massive increases in population right now. With pretty much every part of the media telling us we have to be having great sex on a daily basis or else we are losers, if there were no birth control or abortion, there would probably be lots of orphanages or lots of people who started out having lots of "great" sex, but are now too tired from working three jobs just to keep all of their progeny fed.
Immigrants and their US born children drive 80% of our population growth. We take in 1.1 million PERMANENT LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ANNUALLY.
Keep a close eye on the nations in the southern hemisphere. Christian faith boom going on. The same nations that the west sent missionaries to, now is in turn are NOW sending the Christian missionaries to the west.
One death every 13 seconds
One international migrant (net) every 38 seconds
Net gain of one person every 12 seconds
So no matter what the overall USA fertility rate is NOW, we can confidently predict it is going to go up as the native-borns die off and the immigrants --- well, do the math. Particularly the multiplication.
Do you dispute the census data below?
**All we can do is focus on our own lives and our individual salvation.**
And live chastely.
The US fertility rate has bounced up and down some, but has been essentially unchanged since 1975.
A factor that is seldom discussed is that of WHO is having these kids. There is an inverse relationship in our society between number of children and what is generally considered success.
IOW, we are presently seeing reverse Darwinian selection. Superior reproduction by those who are less fit.
If men were marrying to “get sex” then isn’t that the same as the sexual hedonism the article is ostensibly calling out as part of the problem?
To turn things around, the USA needs a turbulent, vicious economic depression of biblical proportions. Nothing else will work. During the last true depression, churches were filled and people had no one to rely on except for God and family. It ended the debauchery of the roaring 20s or whatever it was. People started to see the truth again and returned to God. They became humbled and turned their lives around. The USA was a Christian, God-centered nation until the 60s sexual revolution and then it all started downhill again.
Really, as a nation we have become lazy, apathetic, greedy and incredibly self-indulgent. Taking away all that God has given us is the only way to bring us back to Him. Truth.
Adding a million legal immigrants a year plus illegal ones.
America was still America and much more livable in 1970, our population was just fine, we were headed to becoming a more advance, larger Switzerland.
The last 100 million people destroyed us as a nation, and turned us into a grubby bus stop of overcrowded cities and big government as our communities were destroyed, and we became a dog eat dog place of concrete and greed and short term gains and big city politics devoured states.
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