The simplest answer is the Obama Depression. Fertility rates always decline in economic hard times. The broader answer is the Culture of Death and the breakdown of the family.
‘The simplest answer is the Obama Depression.’
I agree with this one. I would like to add that the disrespect that the last two generations show for women means that if they do become pregnant the guy either heads for the exit or refuses to marry them and continues to live with them. Government policies that force men to pay child support for what my dad used call something caught in his trap, till they are at least 18 puts a stop to a lot of things.
I personally know a couple of guys that are worth several millions of bucks and are in long term relationships with their women and have never married them nor had children with them, to protect their assets from the woman getting any claim to them.
The lack of respect women have for themselves also plays into this. Say a woman has been married before and has a couple of kids, last marriage ended when she stepped out on the former husband, why would any guy take on another man’s burden and why marry a woman with this history when she betrayed her first husband. Some guys do just that, I guess because they think they are special.
Male kids being raised by women have few of the male virtues and no willingness to be responsible for their own actions. They have also in some cases watched mom bring guys home and have lost respect for her and all other women.
I not speak with forked tongue, have seen it, and the aftereffects.
Among people who actually think, who would bring a child into this world with what is going on presently? Look for the gene pool to be fully stocked with moron sperm, maybe forever.