Posted on 11/03/2023 9:36:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gets in the way of their “kick ass” lives.
Sometimes it’s a self-centered lifestyle....sometimes they’ve read the news.
Maybe they don’t want their potential progeny to be delivered into a life of perpetual slavery by government.
Ask why pets now outnumber kids. But unlike the latter, they will not be there 35 years after birth. Other than consecration to God, the norm is marriage. But children take care, and being much a matter of delayed reward, being prosperous, selfish and with 12 types of contraception plus infanticide rights (20% of pregnancies) then short term gain, long term loss is preferred.
But devout Muslims will provide.
Humanity has entered Universe 25 (look it up).
Free stuff for everyone else raises the cost on those who actually work to produce. Furthermore, because of the growth of managerialsm non productive jobs have grown in salary and importance compared to productive jobs [much of which we have already exported anyway].
Geeze. You introduce birth control and what do you think is going to happen
Ijuts
• The enemedia's denigration of a family unit, consisting of a father, mother and children
• Delayed marriage by males (to go to college)
• Delayed marriage by women (to go to college and have a career besides being a wife and mother)
• Student debt (which further delays marriage)
• Easy availability of birth control
• Ease of divorce
• Urban living
Because they much rather “poke” cellphones all day and night.
Feminism, atheism, selfishness, short sightedness. Mostly women have rejected all manifestations of motherhood and femininity. But all these women will die surrounded by photos of them in Thailand, Machu Pichu, and of their pickaninny trip to save an African village.
Feminism. You spend three generations indoctrinating your best and brightest women into believing that they have something more important to do than being mothers, and this is the obvious and logical result. Western Civilization committed suicide by feminism. And it did it 40 years ago, the corpse just hasn’t stopped twitching quite yet.
YOLO mentality. I’ve even heard the parents of beautiful large families groan about having more.
If we were as prolific as we profess to be “pro-life” most of our political and cultural problems would not exist.
The “universe 25” theory does make sense in densely populated urban areas where young people do not see a way to have space/land/single family home for their kids.
That is certainly the case in Japan and probably Taiwan.
In the US urban dwellers can move to lower cost areas with land and much more affordable single family homes if they want to do so.
In agricultural societies children are put to work at a young age—my wife grew up on a farm and she was taking care of the animals are bringing in firewood when she was ten years old.
Western societies have made child labor illegal so kids cannot contribute to family finances at all—once they are adults they can leave the nest if they wish.
The economics of having children do not work in that environment.
Humans have a tendency to act first and justify after the fact—so I am not persuaded that cultural attitudes caused people to act differently.
Just read the laws and settlements regarding divorce.
I look at it as a lack of purpose. There is no challenge to stay alive. I do not know what to do about it, but as the author pointed out, we are in an unprecedented era of abundance and safety, to which we may well be psychologically maladapted.
Another factor: socialism replaced family-ism, taking away the parent’s return on investment for raising children. The parents do all the work, the government takes all the profit, and the parents subsist on socialism in old age.
Contraceptives. Fewer people would have had kids in the past if the pill had been available.
Also, a lot of sacrifices are required and there’s no guarantee that your children won’t end up hating you.
With all the difficulties young people have forming relationships this is unlikely to get better.
As noted above, a side-effect of the Calhoun “Universe 25” that humanity has developed into.
Possibly a biological cue for organisms like us: an environment of abundance means we don’t “need” as many offspring to sustain the community, except that we’re overcorrecting. Malthusians/overpopulationists like to claim that we breed uncontrollably and overrun any place we spread into, but I think what we’re seeing with the population drop is a refutation of that idea; humanity does not act like a bacterium/virus, replicating without regard to resources. We seem to respond (albeit slowly) to our environment, and do not mindlessly outstrip our resources.
If the latter is a factor, then as population drops and societies begin to deteriorate, the humans that are left will have more kids as a response to the impetus to improve things again.
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