Posted on 05/25/2022 8:02:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We stopped at two, mostly because we started late.
Well couples aren’t getting married either as never before. asically the trend has been to live pretending you’re married. So there’s no foundation there for children.
Not taking marriage seriously or considering it important came first, then redefining it - after all, if it isn’t important to people, why do they care how it is defined or what its purpose is?
If you want to solve this problem, you need to restore wages to the point that a single earner can support a household. This is what Hungary did to restore its birthrate. Here, we let Goldman-Sachs suggest more immigration to push wages down further to ensure corporate profits.
The author missed one, thinking people don’t think it is responsible to bring children into such a lousy world. This has nothing to do with money or career or self-actualization.
Musk is over exposed. He is a person and not the oracle of all knowledge and wisdom. He has seven children that he can’t have time for. He has spread his seed on the wind and left for another flower. He has a track record of this.
But even Hungary has failed to restore its birthrate with those subsidies. There is something more to this.
But they fight like h*ll for abortion in case they do get pregnant.
It’s been said that 90% of the people are caused by accidents.
Kids are expensive and the equivalent of taking a second full time job. Let’s also not forget the issue of “marriageable” partners of either sex within prime birthing age. Also, most of the world is seeing plummeting birth rates - Mexico is about to drop below replacement level is one example closer to home.
Look at the crybabies on this very thread. Nothing but excuses and special pleading. People of European descent are not reproducing at a level even close to replacement. They have chosen death. So have China and Japan. The future belongs to the black and brown skin people willing to populate it.
According to his kids he does have time for them....drives them to school every day and planned events for family on weekends. He and his former wife have shared custody.
These fertility rates reflect the individual decisions of millions of people, and millions of couples.
There are many interrelated factors, I’m sure, which have caused the decline in birth rates.
If you want to solve this problem, you need to restore wages to the point that a single earner can support a household.
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Two people working and therefore not having enough time to raise kids is the major issue.
If suddenly, half of families in America decided to have one wage earner out there, prices would necessarily fall due to a lack of demand. And the quality of life here in the USA would improve.
Well my mom raised four of us on her own after dad died at 36 yrs. We were poor but never knew that. Mom was an exceptional woman and she worked full time.
That it’s almost impossible to be in the same room for more than 20 minutes with women of child bearing years might have something to do with it.
We stopped at two as well. We were open to having more children, but we never got pregnant again after our 2nd. We know that one’s fertility/vitality/ability to conceive, declines with age. The fertility in both men and women decline with age.
Oh come on. There are 1.5 BILLION people pf European decent. 500 years ago there were only 1.5 Billion people on the entire planet!!!
Most Hispanics have more European DNA than native or African even if they are mixed. Also birth rates have plummeted throughout Latin America (which is populated by people of many races including unmixed white folk) If by “brown” people you mean Indians/South Asians (who are what most of the world thinks of when it comes to brown people), the birth rate in India is 2.2 and falling.
Well, then we can allow more undocumented immigrants into our country to bolster our population numbers...
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