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Policy analyst on falling birth rates: Rhetoric from the left contributing to 'change in norms'
Fox News ^ | 5/17/2019

Posted on 05/18/2019 7:38:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

In response to new statistics revealing the United States has hit its lowest birth rate in 32 years, Independent Women's Forum senior policy analyst Patrice Onwuka argued that rhetoric from the political left is contributing to women rethinking the decision to have children.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; children; deathofthewest; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; infanticide; mediawingofthednc; medicareforall; men; obamacare; partisanmediashills; patriceonwuka; presstitutes; smearmachine; women

1 posted on 05/18/2019 7:38:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They are killing their future voters with their “abortion is more important than any other life choice”.

Then another population killer is the promotion of the Gay lifestyle.

If our side pushed abortion and the Gay Life styles, we would probably be called Nazis wanting to destroy our political foes.


2 posted on 05/18/2019 7:43:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( You can't normalize the type of behavior the left is trying to normalize, when, it isn't normal!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It ain’t falling for the muzzies.


3 posted on 05/18/2019 7:48:38 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Grampa Dave
They are killing their future voters with their “abortion is more important than any other life choice”. Then another population killer is the promotion of the Gay lifestyle.

Just their future white voters.

Democrats are going to wind up the party of Muslims and minorities and who will one day say, "Yeah, all this gay stuff? We don't really like it. We're going to make it go away."

4 posted on 05/18/2019 7:49:33 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: MinorityRepublican
The biggest factor is rising prosperity, the continuing emphasis on self absorption and hedonism.

Kids are expensive and just get in the way.

5 posted on 05/18/2019 7:53:33 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Drew68

“the party of Muslims and minorities”

Uh, they won’t BE the minority anymore.


6 posted on 05/18/2019 7:56:54 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: MinorityRepublican

This isn’t solely an American problem. Falling birthrates are happening in every western country eventually. And the governments are now trying to make up the population gap with immigrants.

But it’s happening largely because young people are putting off marriage and children. Your grandparents and great grandparents likely first got married in their late teens or early 20s. Today, young people aren’t getting married until much later.

There is a lot of blame to go around. Some blame the difficulty of achieving the American dream. Kids are coming out of school with a mountain of debt or can’t find a good-paying job in their field. They can’t afford housing on their own. So then end up “boomeranging” back to mom and dad. And that then kills their social life. In the past, poor people and rich people got married at the same rates. But that’s changing now. Rich people are getting married but not the lower class. So economics has become a big issue.

Other people blame feminism. They say the gender roles are all confusing now and no one knows what they are supposed to do with life. Gender roles had a basis on how the division of labor in a relationship is divided up. Now’s it’s all a jumbled mess. Also, many women hold off on marriage and opt instead to focus solely on education and establishing a career, only to find out that can take longer than they planned. Marriage has also lost its allure, especially with men. Many men see it as a financial risk as alimony laws that favor women remain largely in place.

Others blame a degradation of cultural values. Divorce rates are sky high. Lots of kids are being raised by single parents. We also have less direct social interaction with the increase in technology. People’s ideas of finding a date is now swiping right or left on smartphone apps.

The truth is probably a combination of all this.


7 posted on 05/18/2019 8:08:10 AM PDT by david1292
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To: Drew68

They have aborted millions of innocent black babies since Margaret Sanger declared war on blacks in America, decades ago.


8 posted on 05/18/2019 8:16:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (You can't normalize the type of behavior, the left is trying to normalize, because it isn't normal!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
They talk and act like the most intolerable, horrible outcome of a pregnancy would be a live baby.

This injects a dose of sickening ambivalence into the whole society about the intrinsic goodness of having kids.

That's why the <1% of the population who really *are* gender-disoriented, control almost 100% of the education establishment and 100% of the media.

Because it's really not about the 1%. It's about the 99%. They want to disorient all our kids so that they will be firmly on the road to species extinction. Notice that they (the elitists) are trying to snuff out every last thing in our society that contributes to male/female procreative normalcy.

9 posted on 05/18/2019 8:20:39 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (At present, Islam is just expanding into a vacuum.)
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To: david1292
Others blame a degradation of cultural values. Divorce rates are sky high. Lots of kids are being raised by single parents. We also have less direct social interaction with the increase in technology. People’s ideas of finding a date is now swiping right or left on smartphone apps.

Yeah. It's pretty hard to get married to one person when there's a good looking person a block away from you and is available by using a smartphone app.

10 posted on 05/18/2019 8:26:53 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“many more women are seeking higher education and fulfilling career paths”

Which is a very, very bad thing, for those women, for all women, for men, and for civilization.

Women need to return their primary focus to their most important duties; those that only they can perform; those that are required for the survival of civilization.


11 posted on 05/18/2019 9:06:53 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let the national birth rate continue to fall, as the birth rate in Alabama, Missouri, and Louisiana rises. Let’s see what happens.


12 posted on 05/18/2019 9:17:58 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Mueller Report: Donald Trump is the most uncorrupted President in US history!)
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To: david1292

It’s the democrats period with their insanity stretching back more than 100 years of punitive taxation regulation and the tyrannical desire for control.


13 posted on 05/18/2019 12:30:04 PM PDT by Midnitethecat (St)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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14 posted on 05/18/2019 1:06:33 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: david1292

There was an article about this in a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal. A contributor to the decline of the birthrate is that fewer teenage girls are getting pregnant and having children.


15 posted on 05/18/2019 2:01:15 PM PDT by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Only if you’re weak and shallow


16 posted on 05/18/2019 4:42:35 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In the eighties, as divorce rates were spiking, they blamed it on the TV shows we had all grown up watching. Our generation expected marriage to be as was depicted in “Ozzie and Harriet,””Father Knows Best,” and family shows of that nature. When marriage turned out to be something that didn’t run itself, with no problems, they (we) bailed out of what we thought were abnormal relationships.

I don’t know what it is now, but back then the average marriage lasted twelve years. There was none of this ‘shacking up’ to practice before taking the plunge.


17 posted on 05/18/2019 4:53:26 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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