If Americans won’t have children then I can guarantee that immigrants will be brought in to make up the shortfall. This will be the correct course of action to keep America strong when it’s own citizens won’t bear children.
I am not aware of anything preventing parents from taking children out of public schools and enrolling them in religious schools that will teach them whatever values the parent wants. Their freedom to do so is complete and absolute.
In a secular materialistic culture, committed interpersonal relationships have low utility. When self gratification is the highest value, putting energy into loving other people is seen as a cost with no benefit.
“Both President Joe Biden and Sen. Mitt Romney have plans for bolstering American families.”
Oh, thank God. Sarc.
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Wow, a triple. Don’t see that often.
Addendum to the government rule of tens: There is no ‘problem’ that the government can’t make 10 times worse.
Add that to the first Government rule of Tens: Every government program will cost 10 times more than the original estimate.
Corollary to the first rule: This also applies to the revised estimate.
More government has resulted in less economic confidence.
More government has undermined the family structure.
More government has made divorce catastrophic.
More government has resulted in less parenting of children
More government has resulted in an inferior education of children
More government will not fix these problems.
The famed triple post arises.
Is it a full moon?
Did you buy a lotto ticket yet?
What amazes me is the large number of married couples without the slightest concern or desire for children. Just incredible. What’s the point of marriage? Do they also live in a house without a roof? Or buy cars without an engine in them?
Here’s a test: Are birth rates higher in lower property tax states than higher property tax states?
Inquiring minds want to know.
No, Mittens. Try "welfare replacing fathers," "no-fault divorce," "men getting the shaft in family court," "third and fourth-wave feminism" and "hookup culture". Those are your answers.
I think they are avoiding marriage and children because they don't want marriage and children.
This - exactly. The Left's anti-parenting propaganda - especially that aimed at young women - has been overwhelming for decades.
Young people growing up today just are not thinking about marriage and family and children in their future.
Young girls today are told that they can be astronauts, and they can be anything a man can be. How many young girls and women today are absorbing any messages that motherhood and marriage are important life goals?
How many young men grow up thinking that they want to be married and become the best husband and fathers they can be?
How many young people of either sex, think of finding a good life partner to have a family with? And think of this on the same level as their plans for a career?
However, this is a long term demographic trend in all developed countries in Europe, Asia and the Western Hemisphere. It began in Britain and France toward the end of the 19th Century. There is a strong association between large population growth and the beginning of industrialization. But, as a country's development matures, birth rates begin to decline. They may temporarily increase as with the Post-WWII Baby Boom, but the long term trend is always down. Nothing any country has tried has reversed the long term trend. Rates have dropped so far in some countries that they are now facing overall population reduction.
The US is fortunate that we have been on the tail end of this trend, but we're in it as well. China really screwed the pooch. By forcing the downward trend to begin prematurely, they put their population into decline before fully developing, so they are unlikely ever to reach that stage.