You'd be surprised. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/sperm-donors-facebook-groups.html |
I tell my daughter she should only marry a man if he’s extraordinary, and boys that they’ll only have a chance to marry if they’re extraordinary. No reason to lie about their real world chances. |
Does it say that they are single women? The trend is actually more are going childless than SMBC. Virtually 100% of the decline in U.S. fertility is driven by the falling TFPR, meaning that rising childlessness is the entire cause of falling U.S. fertility Childlessness is rising in America, a rise that is unlikely to halt in the near future since rates of first birth are falling and rates of singleness are rising. Those falling first birth rates are due to a combination of rising singleness and declining nonmarital fertility https://ifstudies.org/blog/1-in-4-projecting-childlessness-among-todays-young-women#:~:text=Childlessness%20is%20rising%20in%20America,singleness%20and%20declining%20nonmarital%20fertility. |
Hard to find exact figures, but yes indeed it does seem there is a huge spike in single women choosing to go to sperm donors since 2015 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-07/women-choosing-to-have-children-on-their-own-private-donations/101791620 |
Good question. Women have no clue what they want I am serious. DS is currently dating and you should see the things DW is saying about his GF that she dislikes so much. That tells you everything you want to know lol. |
Yes I can confidently say that I am. How, you ask? I divorced their alcoholic rage dad and have 80% custody. The kids see clearly where his choices got him. To the poster who said it’s like a vacation when her husband goes away- yes. It was like losing a 4th AND 5th child and so much easier to single parent. I’m in the group who won’t marry again. With financial independence what woman would legally bind herself to a man? |
Hugh spike is relative. But clearly it's not enough to offset the rising childless by choice trend. |
15% is a pretty big increase. But anyway, I'd suspect women who want kids will go the sperm donor route (sperm is incredibly cheap) and those who dont want kids wont have them. Pretty simple. |
Again, it's relative. You're just going to keep ignoring facts and pushing this weird agenda that all women are rushing to the sperm bank instead of just forgoing kids all together which is why fertility is declining. |
Women are doing both, how does that affect the OP? |
I have no idea, ask the PP who has been going on and on about how women are just going to have their own children when the point of the OP is women don't want a relationship. Nothing was mentioned about kids at all. |
Well it certainly does affect women's willingness to be in a relationship. Given that sperm is pretty much the only thing that men bring to the relationship nowadays, the fact that it's easily and cheaply obtained by any woman who wants a child probably contributes to the rising lack of interest in marriage from women. |
Again ignoring the rise of childlessness. You’re just doing your own thing here. |
How is that ignoring it? Acknowledging other paths hardly changes the outcome. |
No. That they can marry at 60 to a younger woman and father a child. |