Birth rate plummets
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Interesting that you don't mentioned Israel... |
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Because it doesn’t exist. How do illegals get benefits without a ssn? You think an illegal is going to walk into a social security office for benefits? They’re not going to willingly interact with government employees out of fear of being deported. Also you don’t understand basic math. The current generation funds the retirees. The baby boom is a huge block of people. The largest birth year was 2007. These kids are largely not in the workforce yet. |
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There are a lot of factors that women don't entirely control, especially if they seek to abide by the societal rules/expectations of marriage before motherhood, which is the expectation of the conservative part of society. Then there are a lot more things women don't control along the way. It's way more complex than the simplistic idea that if women want children, they will just make it happen. I always knew I wanted at least two children. I did get to a point where I wanted three, but almost dying during the second pregnancy with my second child put a hard stop to any idea of a third. So I suppose my stated fertility goal was higher than the level I actually reached, but that was not entirely in my control. |
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No it isn’t. What if you don’t want to be unmarried and have kids? What if you can’t afford freezing your own eggs? Girls outnumber boys in the US . Lots of Women may remain unmarried /single for a long time and by the time, they are ready or found someone who wants to marry them, they may be past childbearing age. |
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Or… hear me out… they aren’t educated and don’t think much about the consequences of child rearing…. Because when women are educated… they make better choices. |
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Texting and technology ruined dating. Dating was significantly better before the Internet |
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You’re a woman who’s been red pilled. Do better |
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Most of these examples are from high-profile men who have significant fame and fortune with multiple different women. This isnt your average and the women IMO are foolish. And it isnt really pertinent to the discussion except when you take into account that men are making less and less money and are less educated and more likely to be failure to launch. That means less men are available for partnerships. We are talking about the average male and female. I would also note that the women arent having 4+ kids, unless there are multiples. Your limitation when the male population isnt sufficient is the number of pregnancies a woman will willingly go through which is why you see the big push to limit womens choice. |
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According to dating app data and anecdotal experience 80% of women tend to go for the 5% of men. Those men have little incentive to settle down because they have an abundance of options.
Women want to date a higher status male. A successful woman has a hard time dating a waiter, while the inverse is not true. The higher a woman's status, the smaller her dating pool becomes. The higher a man's status becomes, the larger his dating pool becomes. Women have become highly educated and their statuses have climbed dramatically over the last several decades, but their dating preferences have only gotten stricter and stricter. So they end up not pairing off and having babies. And the birth rate drops. Women need to widen their dating preferences. Read the book “Marry Him” by Lori Gottlieb. It does a good job explaining this. |
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Having kids is an emotional choice. ALWAYS. Whether you have money or not, whether you are young or old, educated or not, etc.
My daughter has an MBA and let me tell you, she doesn't want kids. Being educated has nothing to do with it! In fact, I would suggest that the smarter and more educated you are, the less likely you'd want to have kids in this day and age. I totally don't blame her as I have 2. Given the current conditions, I would not want kids either and I do not have an MBA! Who in their right mind wants the childcare, pressures and stress of having kids today, seriously. It's not about men v women, more about what to do with the kids for so many years. That's a real no joke reality. Whether you are a mom or a dad, you're in it. Balancing a career and parenthood in the US WELL is not even a hard thing to do but almost impossible thing to do. People do it but it's seriously hard. |
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Egg freezing is also not a guarantee and you don’t know about the quality of the eggs collected until you try to fertilize them later. I am strong proponent of egg freezing, but you need to make sure you collect enough eggs to provide a high probability of success. https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/3937/bwh-egg-freezing-counseling-tool-efct#creator-insights |
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Have a mid twenties DD. She laughs about how some of her friends have "unrealistic expectations" about what a man should be. No human could match what they want. |
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I do think that higher education levels for women do reduce proportion that want children and the desired number of children. It’s a matter of opportunity costs. Women with greater career and professional prospects have more to lose by having kids. Unless you are very wealthy the cost of outside childcare is often a limiting factor for how many kids someone can afford. |
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You missed the sarcasm in that reply, alas. |