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Report: Americans’ Obsession With Careers Is Contributing To Our Dangerous Lack Of Babies
The Federalist ^ | March 18, 2021 | Joy Pulman

Posted on 03/18/2021 9:20:03 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Work and family need to be balanced. Work helps us develop and use skills that others will pay for. The income from this productive work funds the needs of our families.


21 posted on 03/18/2021 9:47:04 AM PDT by RetiredScientist
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The same people who told men that they were being crushed underfoot by evil capitalist oppressors were the same people who insisted that women should be allowed to have those same jobs. Doubling the work forced lowered everyone’s wages and now people feel like they can’t afford to have children.
So I guess we need to import people who won’t work anyways. Great plan everyone.


22 posted on 03/18/2021 9:47:47 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: Kaslin

Can’t afford to live without that second income any more.
Taxes and inflation have destroyed the value of our earnings.


23 posted on 03/18/2021 9:49:36 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: Kaslin

Not really. Since it costs about a million dollars to raise a child and keep them out of public schools K-16 that is the real reason. If you want to squirt out kids like weeds and send them into government indoctrination centers have at it.


24 posted on 03/18/2021 9:53:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: PGR88

We off shored a lot of good paying blue collar jobs.


25 posted on 03/18/2021 9:55:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

That’s not true of all Americans.

All the ebt recipients are taking up the slack. And with the newly passed increase in child credit payments it will incentivize them even more.


26 posted on 03/18/2021 9:55:55 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Low IQ counties will always have a high birth rate. It is quality not quantity.


27 posted on 03/18/2021 9:56:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: dfwgator

That’s why couples give up the reason for day care.


28 posted on 03/18/2021 9:57:06 AM PDT by Bryanw92
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To: mewzilla
Note to the Federalist: Careers...or something else? Try this: Compare the birth rates in high property tax states with birth rates in low or no prop tax states.

Please spell it out! Don't be coy! What are you hinting at? In plain words!

Regards,

29 posted on 03/18/2021 9:58:03 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: escapefromboston

And related to that, it takes two middle class paychecks to buy a house in many areas of the country nowadays. Some moms who might prefer to be a stay at home mom, need to work so their family can afford to buy a house in a nice area with good schools.


30 posted on 03/18/2021 9:58:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: erlayman

Yeah, that’s not going to happen. Man is mortal, you might as well get used to it, just like every other human that has ever lived has had to.


31 posted on 03/18/2021 9:59:13 AM PDT by Boogieman
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32 posted on 03/18/2021 9:59:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: central_va

“It is quality not quantity.”

Quality is only better than quantity until the quantity of your quality approaches zero.


33 posted on 03/18/2021 10:00:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Quantity has a quality all its own.


34 posted on 03/18/2021 10:00:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin
that Americans aren’t having babies because they’re worried about how expensive kids are

It has nothing to do with the dominant feminist ideology destroying marriage as an institution and telling men they're worthless, stupid, and the source of all evil in the world -- nothing but seriously inferior versions of women.

Nope. Nothing to see here, move along. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

35 posted on 03/18/2021 10:00:50 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: Kaslin

We will outsource babymaking to other nations as we have outsourced jobs in everything from tech to legal, manufacturing, accounting, and graphic design.


36 posted on 03/18/2021 10:03:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Kaslin

Now that many more folks can work from home, that is a surprising revelation and bodes ill for the country’s future..


37 posted on 03/18/2021 10:10:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!! NMP!)
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To: escapefromboston
Ending ALL work visas, legal immigration and the H-1B visa would be a boon to the middle class. This alone would spark a baby boom.

It is clear the the government wants to replace us and not to have kids. They are importing our replacements at break neck speed.

38 posted on 03/18/2021 10:16:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Who can afford babies when we have such high taxes to pay for the care and feeding of anchor babies and their illega alien family?


39 posted on 03/18/2021 10:17:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Offshoring, massive legal immigration, illegal immigration, work visas and globalism have killed the middle class. It is not hard to figure this out.


40 posted on 03/18/2021 10:18:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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