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EXCLUSIVE: What's behind the US baby bust? Americans are prioritizing careers and leisure activities over having a family... as experts say this has set the US on an irreversible path to economic destruction
The Daily Mail ^ | 16 Jan 2023 | Mansur Shaheen

Posted on 01/16/2023 2:48:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The famous American work ethic helped the United States become the economic superpower of the 20th century.

But experts warn the decision to prioritize careers over families has set the country on an irreversible path to economic destruction. The reason? People do not have enough children anymore.

A baby boom in the mid-20th century saw the average woman give birth to between three and four children. Today, just 1.6 children - the lowest level recorded since data was first tracked in 1800.

This could lead to economic devastation in America down the line - as the federal government would need to collect more taxes to fund programs such as Medicare and Social Security - while dishing out less benefits to each person.

The downward trend of American fertility has accelerated in recent decades, as the 'Instagram generation' of millennials and zoomers prioritize their careers, travel and relaxation over building families.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: babies; fourthreich; globalwarming; men; women
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1 posted on 01/16/2023 2:48:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t worry. We’ll just allow millions of low IQ non whites to take over the country.
Enjoy your future.


2 posted on 01/16/2023 2:50:00 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Return to God & family values & the problem will fix itself.


3 posted on 01/16/2023 2:51:51 PM PST by Twotone
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To: MinorityRepublican

Young people have become convinced family is a trial.

Sure, there are a lot of reasons behind this.

But for many, to their sorrow they will discover too late what a wastrel they have been, nothing to show for their successes or lives.


4 posted on 01/16/2023 2:51:58 PM PST by Bayard
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To: MinorityRepublican
What's behind the US baby bust?

The infanticide of mass abortions.

5 posted on 01/16/2023 2:52:19 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: EEGator
Yes, we are importing Mexicans to make up for the baby shortfall.

Might as well just annex Mexico into the United States. I do like most of their food and their tequila.

6 posted on 01/16/2023 2:53:42 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,818,034 Truth | 87,745,895 Twitter)
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To: Jim W N

Which is a logical consequence of the sexual revolution and no-fault divorce.


7 posted on 01/16/2023 2:53:43 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: MinorityRepublican

Unbridled LEGAL immigration supresses wages for the middle class and made raising a family a very scary thing. The cultural war on white males isn’t helping.


8 posted on 01/16/2023 2:53:54 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A woman I work in her late 30s told me that many of her friends are choosing not to have children; the reason basically being they want to have fun and don’t want the responsibility of being parents. It’s as if they are prolonging childhood/adolescence deep into adulthood.


9 posted on 01/16/2023 2:54:00 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: EEGator
We’ll just allow millions of low IQ non whites to take over the country. Enjoy your future.

At least they'll reproduce. Native born Americans are too woke to bother to reproduce.

10 posted on 01/16/2023 2:54:34 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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It should be part of the Conservative culture to encourage families with 3 children.


11 posted on 01/16/2023 2:54:39 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Jim W N
What's behind the US baby bust?

The infanticide of mass abortions.

DING! Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! More than 65,000,000 babies have been MURDERED in the womb.

65,000,000+ murders any other way is called MASS GENOCIDE.

In the US, it's "women's reproductive healthcare" and it's legal.

12 posted on 01/16/2023 2:56:34 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: MinorityRepublican

“prioritize careers over families”

I might get in trouble for saying this but the big push to get women out of the home was a mistake.

It roughly doubled the number of people working, meaning lower wages.

Then it convinced men and women their career was more important than having a family.

Now there are not enough American kids around.

By the way I am not denigrating one parent staying at home. Raising kids is a LOT harder than working at the factory.

I know because I am raising one alone, and work is my safe place.


13 posted on 01/16/2023 2:56:42 PM PST by packagingguy
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It is also a fact that many young people no longer have the ambition to work. Working from home and receiving government subsidies is much more appealing.


14 posted on 01/16/2023 2:57:04 PM PST by Eva
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I’m sorry I don’t believe in popping out babies for the “economy”. Just an excuse to bring hordes of freeloaders here


15 posted on 01/16/2023 2:57:18 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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In Pfizer’s Covid ‘vaccine’ trials, most pregnant women lost their babies. Birth rates are dropping all over the world in heavily vaxxed locations, at a greater rate than the years prior to the ‘vaccine’.


16 posted on 01/16/2023 2:57:58 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Hieronymus

Yup


17 posted on 01/16/2023 2:58:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: central_va

Maybe that’s who fueling this baby ‘bust’. :-(


18 posted on 01/16/2023 2:59:16 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
At least they'll reproduce. Native born Americans are too woke to bother to reproduce.

I'm seeing a lot of white Texans in the past few years who are procreating like mad. These days, if I see a pregnant woman, 80% of the time she's white.

19 posted on 01/16/2023 2:59:26 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: packagingguy

Basically what you are saying it was a big mistake to give women what they were demanding.

Well they got what they wanted. Still unhappy as ever.


20 posted on 01/16/2023 3:00:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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