Posted on 05/18/2018 4:50:02 AM PDT by reaganaut1
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. birth rates declined last year for women in their teens, 20s and — surprisingly — their 30s, leading to the fewest babies in 30 years, according to a government report released Thursday.
Experts said several factors may be combining to drive the declines, including shifting attitudes about motherhood and changing immigration patterns.
The provisional report, based on a review of more than 99 percent of the birth certificates filed nationwide, counted 3.853 million births last year. That's the lowest tally since 1987.
Births have been declining since 2014, but 2017 saw the greatest year-to-year drop — about 92,000 less than the previous year.
That was surprising, because baby booms often parallel economic booms, and last year was a period of low unemployment and a growing economy.
But other factors are likely at play, experts said.
One may be shifting attitudes about motherhood among millennials, who are in their prime child-bearing years right now. They may be more inclined to put off child-bearing or have fewer children, researchers said.
Another may be changes in the immigrant population, who generate nearly a quarter of the babies born in the U.S. each year. For example, Asians are making up a larger proportion of immigrants, and they have typically had fewer children than other immigrant groups.
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Psychotic women and boys that never grow up.
AP continues to ignore the problem.
Marriage and fatherhood are a bad deal for men, so they aren’t taking the deal anymore.
Muslims are pumping out lots of babies; way more than Whites.
Who’s going to be the future Majority??
Do the Math.
:-(
Witches coven!
I offer my services...
Demographics is destiny.
Speaking of faith, it takes faith in The Lord to have a child. I didn't want any kids until I got saved. Now my wife and I have 8.
I find it interesting that people don’t bring up the “child bearing window” that starts earlier and ends earlier. Turn of the century puberty, the window started around 16-18, in the 50’s it was around 13-15 and more recent generations it starts 9-10. This also means that it closes that much sooner and women who started their period in single digits are now hitting menopause in their 40’s. Scary.
Soy and peppermint tea
Student loans for a degree in Slut Studies with a minor in gender theory.
Another reason the Left supports illegal aliens.
If circumstances were left alone, the Right would outbreed the Left and its culture of death.
One may be shifting attitudes about motherhood among millennials
American women have bought into the lie that you can have your cake and eat it to! It's much more than millenials. I think as a percentage there are more single women age 40 and up than ever! They're all divorced and all have kids. What does that tell you? It tells me that the divorce was likely precipitated by an unhappy family or conflict! Not having a Mom to run the family is likely the cause, as men are basically simple creatures and are predictable!
Just think...when all us white folk get old, these POC's will gladly take care of us. They LOVE old white people.
Sir,
By your tag I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that you live in Virginia.
Go down state a bit. White are doing that. Go to Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, heck any small town in the Midwest.
Read “Hillbilly Elegy”. Except for the Hillbilly tag, that is my home town.
The .gov destroyed the Indians, devastated the African Americans, and is working to finish off the European Americans. When my bride and I got married 14 years ago, a coworker pulled her aside and gave her a rather detailed print out of how she could marry me out of country in a church setting, have me live in the garage, and collect all sorts of welfare.
The little town she was teaching in had that sort of thing as one of their main economic drivers.
“”Demographics is destiny.””
Yep. Who’s having the Kids. Guess.... Industrious Parents? Or, Welfare SCAM Parents??
How are they shown to live??
Left unchanged, THAT probably is our future. No one wants to talk about it.
How about the “birth rate” for men???
Secular humanist leftards are especially intolerant of the traditional Biblical family. They cite the institution of marriage as a prime example of the failure of Christian culture to provide freedom for the individual to grow. Marriage is considered too restrictive, inhibiting vital inclinations. Monogamy for the humanist epitomizes social slavery
Not in Los Feliz. Babies everywhere.
How many stable couples are out there with ‘only’ 2 kids? They should find a way to have that 3rd. I’d gladly give $100 to a niece and her husband to have that SECOND one. Uncle Sam needs to get out of the way.
let us hope the lowest rates are among Liberal women
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