Posted on 10/20/2018 9:33:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
As 2017 drew to a close, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) urged Americans to have more children. To keep the country great, he said, we’re “going to need more people.”
“I did my part,” the father of three declared.
Ryan’s remarks drew some eye rolls at the time, but as new data about the country’s collapsing fertility rates has emerged, concern has deepened over what’s causing the changes, whether it constitutes a crisis that will fundamentally change the demographic trajectory of the country — and what should be done about it.
Women are now having fewer babies and at older ages than in the past three decades, a change that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported this year, and which was confirmed this week with the release of additional data that shows that the trend holds across races and for urban and rural areas.
The CDC said Wednesday that the total fertility rate — a theoretical figure that estimates the number of births a woman will have in her lifetime — fell by 18 percent from 2007 to 2017 in large metropolitan areas, 16 percent in smaller metro areas and 12 percent in rural areas. A similar downward trend holds for white, black and Hispanic women.
Fertility and birthrates are among the most closely monitored indicators of a country’s economic health. When too high, a surging youth population might be unable to find work and become susceptible to unrest. When too low, economies can rapidly contract, and a small working-age population has to support a large retired population. The United States is somewhat more buffered because of its relatively high levels of immigration, but if the decline in fertility continues, demographers say, the country may face an extreme population imbalance
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So sad. They are missing out on one of the greatest joys in life.
How do you tell a young woman she’ll regret not becoming a mother? The key word is young. NE Journal of Medicine once wrote that early 20’s are the prime years for child bearing. Abortion availability allowed men to be the pigs they are underneath that gentlemanly facade. Being young and having sex without consequences means one becomes jaded and cynical early in life. How many guys out there are worth making that DEPENDABLE commitment? Why buy the cow... Oh, forgot. They eventually become cows.
[[women who choose to remain barren.
Not sure what’s going on here,]]
Selfishness and Greed- Plain and simple- job and money is more important that raising children to them
Debt out of college for guys is to blame.
Young women have made themselves too toxic to risk a relationship on. Further they have been told that they can eliminate 90% of men from the pool of prospective mates.
Toxicity plus unrealistic expectations mean a generation will not breed. I think the Democrats want it this way.
Feminism at its core is an anti fertility cult.
That guy is still alive?
we sure don’t need more crowding or any more “immigrants” from terrorist countries (I would accept good Christians and Jews but the Moslems have already driven out or murdered most of them anyway)
For good measure, I'll throw in the Federal Reserve into your list, by debasing the dollar through inflation, with prices rising to levels that families need two wage earners. These families then have to cut back on having children for fear of running out of money.
“concern has deepened over what’s causing the changes”.....
Deepened ? They’ll say climate change has everyone depressed
and can’t get in the mood. hehe
“Don’t forget widespread acceptance of pornography.”
You forgot homers, homer-sexuals.../S
The latter won't stop the inevitable unrest and instability. Immigrants who work - mostly Asian and Hispanic - are not likely to buy in to the idea that they must fund the welfare state (because they lack "white guilt"). The gravy train speeds on, but up ahead somewhere, the bridge is definitely out.
The formula that has worked to LOWER fertility everywhere it has been tried is shockingly simple: Raise the standard of living.
The obvious solution to low fertility is make us all poor peasants.
Is that what you really want, lots of kids raised in grinding poverty?
We are creating a culture of intellectual castration and shame for men in this country. If men are not capable of a deeper emotional and spiritual connection that is required to be intimate with a woman— if we are all clue-less neanderthals-which is what I’m getting from the news every day, then it is time to accept it. By continuing to be relentless and insistent in any way that men are in fact not all the same is both humiliating, painful and ultimately self-emasculating because no one is listening. Most of us, unless we are part of the 0000000.1 percent, are going to struggle. Male/female, gay/straight/ Christian/Muslim are all inadequately generic labels that no longer work and do not bring us together. Besides the fact that selfish individualism is the law of the land for the time being, one might consider that the divisiveness that plagues the globe is not in the best interest of humanity. Sexism, which is as old as Neanderthal droppings, is a blight on humanity, not just men. And the programming used by our education system is a strong contender for a champion of the stupidity with its outright attack on men that really attacks women at the same time by making them disable themselves.
During the 2016 election, I made a comment in front of my, at that time, 17 year old granddaughter that I would not vote for Hilary. She not only became indignant, but openly challenged me that I wouldn’t vote for her because she is a woman in a rather cutting tone of voice. I smiled at her with her hands on her hips staring at me, and asked her, “I didn’t say why I wouldn’t vote for her. Do you read minds?” Her glare went to a surprised stare. I added, “I won’t vote for anyone that does not have the experience I see needed to do it. Putting Hilary into a position that her ineptness as SOS has exhibited is a write off.” I then had to go to the web and show her things like Benghazi, the Iranian deal, and other things she had never seen that was brokered by Hilary. I, also, brought up her foundation and how they ripped off Haiti and still are doing things involving taxes. I told her there was a lot more, but, again, Hilary doesn’t get my vote. She gave me a hug and thanked me for working with her. Will it change her mind about the problem of inequality for women and how to successfully bargain between the sexes? Not as soon as she went to school the next day.
rwood
John B. Calhoun explains nearly every trend in America today.
The reasons are so easy.
1. Biological
2. Sociological
Biology
Our environment is filled with endocrine disruptors and neurotoxins. Egg quality has greatly diminished over the last 50 years. Even young women who don’t wait to start a family are showing up with premature egg failure in their 20s. The %ages of euploid eggs are gong down; more eggs even in yong women are not fit to become babies, meaning they will not keep growing. They won’t form embryos or will form but not for long.
Sociology
Two parts:
A) Women are waiting until after education and career to start having children, and their egg quality diminishes by the year, quite rapidly after 35.
B) raising children is difficult and takes a lot of time and money. Having a strong married couple to do it together is best, and that is getting more difficult as men are not finding enough benefit through marrying, and women are not encouraged to become giving, nurturing spouses any longer. It is too difficult to parent well with all the breadwinning responsibilities on the single parent. Even those couples having kids have fewer than in generations past.
Most families in the Church I attend have three to five kids.
Fertility is down in some sectors of the population, but by no means all.
Which may be another driving factor in illegal immigration designed to select criminals specifically. The new world order doesn’t like the implications of fertile Christians.
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