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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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To: toddausauras

The real concern of government is that men won’t be subsidizing women and their offspring they have from 20 years of “having fun” with scores of other guys prior.


21 posted on 01/16/2023 3:02:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CatOwner

Since to US is mostly white people, your observation is not surprising.


22 posted on 01/16/2023 3:02:05 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Hieronymus

There’ll be a sign for all to see
Be sure that it will certain be.
Then love shall die and marriage cease
And nations wane as babes decrease.

And wives shall fondle cats and dogs
And men live much the same as hogs.

-Mother Shipton, 1558


23 posted on 01/16/2023 3:02:28 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Given that most women go to college now (even more than men), it’s only to be expected that baby production would crash. All per the Leftist/Globalist plan.


24 posted on 01/16/2023 3:02:56 PM PST by BobL
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To: Gene Eric

๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ 3 ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ.

You have to be able to find a woman who is or has some conservative values, and hasn’t hit the wall. That, and she has to have a mutual interest in starting a family.


25 posted on 01/16/2023 3:03:11 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: MinorityRepublican

Or, there are a lot of infertile couples due to the jabs.


26 posted on 01/16/2023 3:03:26 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ("The Newsโ€ is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The left love death. It is a curious toy to them.

Meanwhile young Christian and muslin families are filling up 15 passenger vans.


27 posted on 01/16/2023 3:03:54 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Schumer said weโ€™re importing breeders!


28 posted on 01/16/2023 3:03:57 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: MinorityRepublican
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.

Notice how this is set up. Itโ€™s the scare the old people tactic, and if you dare say โ€œcut spendingโ€ youโ€™ll be accused of pushing Grandma over the cliff, even if you donโ€™t want to cut Medicare and Social Security. All levels of government need to be massively cut. That will lead to more freedom and economic prosperity. Cutting spending solves many problems.

29 posted on 01/16/2023 3:04:10 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think the real reason is despair. That other stuff is rationalization.


30 posted on 01/16/2023 3:06:43 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

What Happened??

Ill tell you what happened.

Schools and parents told children that having babies was thankless work with no rewards.

Children were given dolls to care for, dolls that cried and gave no positive reinforcement, little Japanese egg things that were to be carried and cared for to earn an grade and to be trained in hating to have babies. BRAVE NEW WORLD COULD NOT HAVE DESIGNED IT BETTER.

Children were taught that abortion was brave and made sense, and that one cannot have a full life with infants and children.

Adults TAUGHT children not to want babies. And of course it worked. YOUR SCHOOLS AND CULTURE DID THIS.

I see the difference with the homeschooled kids who had and enjoyed their brothers and sisters and friends children. The girls who cannot wait to help in nursery at church, the boys who play and piggy back little kids in the yard. I do not know a homeschool family who has less than three children and most have four to six.

The other places I see people who uphold children are the LDS and the Anabaptists, Amish and Mennonites. And they have large families a skill that is upheld and revered.

One other thing I think may play into tanking western babymaking is that as far as I know, Western countries are the only ones that have fathers in the labor and delivery room. I think that it has an effect of men and women and their sexual lives. Dad is best in the waiting room. Let women tend to the delivering mother.


31 posted on 01/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

That would be a clue.

32 posted on 01/16/2023 3:09:04 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: packagingguy

Thanks. I looked her up. You might want to check out my home page—although odds are you already know the key piece.


33 posted on 01/16/2023 3:09:22 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: BobL

And part of that has to do with women delaying having children. Of the women who do have children, they tend to have fewer children in their fertile lifetime than women did in past decades.

And there a reasons for that such as women in their fertile mid 20s or late 20s going to graduate school or Law School, and taking birth control pills the whole time.


34 posted on 01/16/2023 3:11:56 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: CatOwner
I'm seeing a lot of white Texans in the past few years who are procreating like mad.

Are they Mormons? Conservative Baptists?

35 posted on 01/16/2023 3:12:18 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: BobL
Given that most women go to college now (even more than men), itโ€™s only to be expected that baby production would crash.

Compared to men, you see them lean left.

So we'll cease to exist. They'll be more Mormons, Hispanics and Amish in the next couple of generations.

36 posted on 01/16/2023 3:13:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

OR

It’s all the hidden and denied stillborn from jabbed moms.

Spit.


37 posted on 01/16/2023 3:14:32 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: All

Who wants to have kids in a country with no future ?


38 posted on 01/16/2023 3:15:16 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: SamAdams76

Why not have Mexico annex California instead?


39 posted on 01/16/2023 3:15:24 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: usconservative

If you kill your baby by Abortion, shouldt it be called “Non Reproductive health”?


40 posted on 01/16/2023 3:16:10 PM PST by neverbluffer
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