Ours will continue to decline as more and more young men do the cost/benefit analysis.
“Then there’s the United States. Our fertility rate is only slightly higher than China’s.”
“Ours will continue to decline as more and more young men do the cost/benefit analysis.”
Not the married Christian men. The people who have sex the most often in the U.S. are people who are both married and attend church regularly. Birth rates are a little higher among people who not only get married but stayed married, as regular church members do (30% less divorce rate).
They don’t realize that the ultimate cost is living a selfish, lonely and empty life. Love is the true commodity of life. Love involves risks and pain, also vulnerability, but is worth everything.
Without it, you may not miss it until you come face to face with your own emptiness. Many do many things to cover up, even from themselves, their inner emptiness, trying to fill their emptiness with many things. The only thing that truly satisfies is LOVE.