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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And I’m not against geezers. But tax policy that benefits people who neither work nor breed is nuts.
I gave you an answer in reply 57. Not my problem if you don’t like it.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
It’s not “tax policy”.
What robs American society of a people that populates and flourishes is JOBS.
We made bullshit free trade deals all over the world and left ourselves without industry.
I just traveled the entire West USA for the last 5 weeks. Amazing how much poverty there is out there, bums, drug addicts, folks doing NOTHING.
There is no such thing as free trade, but that’s another thread. :-)
Tax policy affects job creation, too, you know.
The power to tax truly is the power to destroy.
The general acceptance of birth control within marriage by pretty much every faith, either officially or by the members of the faith.
If you want to have your mind blown, search ‘Amish population explosion.’ They don’t accept birth control within marriage.
Freegards
The love of money is the root of all evil.
White girls are as promiscuous as anytime since Caligula’s barge or Salomès dance
But they dont want a baby
Just orgasms
Pitiful
Ive axtually looked at social media hook up sites my daughter wanted me to see so Id know how difficult it is to date
I was stunned....gorgeous southern girls 25-40 scanning photos of some guy they dont know from Adam to come over now...
As in right now and just screw them right on the spot
Its disgusting
Its a lot more than just that
Thats bullshit just laying the blame for all this strictly at womens feet
Oh it’s definitely more than just that. It’s rare to be able to identify a single problem as the sole cause of a social trend. However, it would be foolish to say that this isn’t a large part of this. Economics also plays a huge role. Self centeredness of the male population, however, largely does not, regardless of anyone’s feels on the matter.
The issue I identified isn’t blaming women specifically either. Yes, feminists bear a lot of blame. So do our alleged “betters” in government who went along with it. So do we, who voted for those people, thinking their policy prescriptions were just fine when they weren’t.
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