U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low

[Anonymous]

Fewer babies were born in the U.S. in 2023 than any year since 1979. In your opinion, is this good for a common person or bad and why?

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/america-birth-rate-decline-a111d21b?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0qREQEwCuhxVJoTs8TF2JIswouCd9-xrIackxltKUkKpT4P-EwsTxN7d8_aem_AdkuiW1JASKPNkLk9LzMEhg7cW5NC-xak32prk3pPPu4XAcH-rkybv94o-m2lEo7hJwij3iE76wrEZLn6l3KiQK9

[Anonymous]

This is clearly a testament to efficiency of birth control methods and deficiency of dual income economic model but obviously other factors are involved. Probably number one being no-one wants to bring kids in such a messed up world.

It can't bode well for future of social services net. May be we need paranoid conservatives and their ban on women's rights? Or do we need liberals with open borders?

[Anonymous]

We can always provide better maternal/paternal leave and free childcare and family support services but that's unlikely in current atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

A good thing. More parking etc.

[Anonymous]

Gilead is upon us.

[Anonymous]

It’s a good thing. We can’t keep expecting the economy to run on the pyramid scheme we’ve relied on in the past. Also, does anyone else find it funny that it’s shocking that it’s the lowest since 1979? Like—omg, not the SEVENTIES! The Horror!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a good thing. We can’t keep expecting the economy to run on the pyramid scheme we’ve relied on in the past. Also, does anyone else find it funny that it’s shocking that it’s the lowest since 1979? Like—omg, not the SEVENTIES! The Horror!

I don’t think anyone is reacting in horror about the 70s. It’s just stating a fact. Your reaction is the very odd one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is clearly a testament to efficiency of birth control methods and deficiency of dual income economic model but obviously other factors are involved. Probably number one being no-one wants to bring kids in such a messed up world.

It can't bode well for future of social services net. May be we need paranoid conservatives and their ban on women's rights? Or do we need liberals with open borders?

You people are so stupid.

“Such a messed up world,” why? Because there’s a couple low-level skirmishes underway on the other side of the globe? Not enough quality teachers in public schools? A largely reviled one-term former president under multiple indictments is facing off against a barely coherent dementia patient to lead the free world (that one’s admittedly not great).

We have lives and homes and access to medicine, food, knowledge, entertainment, beyond what kings could have dreamed of for virtually all human history. Torture, rape, and child labor were 100% legal and routine for millennia until about 5 minutes ago in historical terms (and still are in “Palestine” and most other third world hellholes you guys love so much). Ghengis Khan roamed an entire continent skull-f$cking every village he encountered. WWII, all kinds of death and destruction arising from one man’s largely successful effort to exterminate 10s of millions of people. JNCO jeans in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Anyone not having kids because the world today is “messed up” is a navel-gazing idiot and we’re glad to have your weak sauce eliminated from the gene pool.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s good. Depending on an ever increasing population is simply buying into a Ponzi scheme on ourselves and the planet. That being said, we really have got to reset our models of aging and long-term care so that they don’t assume younger generations will always be older than bigger ones.

[Anonymous]

It would be awesome if we had mandated insurance coverage for fertility. Then more people that want babies could have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can always provide better maternal/paternal leave and free childcare and family support services but that's unlikely in current atmosphere.

Even countries that provide this have declining birth rates. When women have the option to have fewer children, they do.

[Anonymous]

It is not good. We are facing down the barrel of a growing upside down pyramid of older less/non productive elderly people in poor health who will have to be supported by a diminishing workforce of young people. We are close to a point of no return. Google Japan and South Korea - they are probably past the inflection point.

[Anonymous]

It's not good. This is why we need immigrants.

[Anonymous]

The global undesirables are breeding like flies (so to speak) and the Western liberals have women who refuse to have children until they’re 42 years old, then talk about nothing but “perimenopause” starting around 47.

What else do you expect?

We live in a useless, sclerotic America. Other than the poor whited and blacks, and the immigrants.

[Anonymous]

It's good. Overpopulation is bad. If at any time the future looks grim (i.e. climate change), just don't reproduce. Problem solved.