Posted on 04/27/2024 2:49:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
American women are giving birth at record-low rates.
The total fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, a 2% decline from a year earlier, federal data released Thursday showed. It is the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s.
The decline reflects a continuing trend as American women navigate economic and social challenges that have prompted some to forgo or delay having children. A confluence of factors are at play. American women are having fewer children, later in life. Women are establishing fulfilling careers and have more access to contraception.
At the same time, young people are also more uncertain about their futures and spending more of their income on homeownership, student debt and child care. Some women who wait to have children might have fewer than they would have otherwise for reasons including declining fertility.
“People are making rather reasoned decisions about whether or not to have a child at all,” said Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “More often than not, I think what they’re deciding is ‘Yes, I’d like to have children, but not yet.’”
Total fertility estimates the number of children a woman would give birth to in her lifetime. The estimates don’t account for what women actually decide in later years, said Brady Hamilton, a co-author of the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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So be it. Life goes on without them. Next generation, we'll have more Mormons, Amish, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, etc. Religion will become huge again.
I say that in jest. We have a generation of women more brainwashed, unhappy, and souless vessels with high body counts. And the older women flat out lie to them
Our current society is not sustainable. So it will be transformed somehow.
What flat out lies are older women telling them ?
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Very true. It is now in the process of being transformed.
But they have their cats.
Bill Gates is thrilled.
The egg freezing industry lies about the success rate of their processes. Recently they are pushing a debunked "study" saying single childess women are the happiest, when in fact they are the number 1 demographic for skyrocketing SSRI use.
Thank you….very confusing to me .
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