US fertility rate drops to lowest in 100 years
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
- -- The US fertility rate drops to its lowest in a century, and we discuss the implications of the declining birth rate on the environment, economy, and foreign policy
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Are you surprised?
I always considered you a White Devil. Your kind are definitely that. They too are being “darkened” by the Fellas and their Lovely Ladies. Even your future Grandkids will have Nappy Hair.
What Race are You? That’s right your kind is declining. Sounds about White.
It's almost like when people can't afford the basics for themselves, they don't want to bring another life into poverty or something.
The worlds poorest have the greatest number of children, so that isn't it.
For some, that is the reason.
@@maclecticthe world’s poorest don’t have access to birth control.
@@phillynurse9492 False, high fertility rate African countries like Nigeria have access to condoms. They refuse to use them, google it.
I think it’s not even exactly poverty as such - it’s insecurity. From about 1945 to the 1980s, people who earned very little still had a sense of security. Their employer was not too likely to go bust, but if so they could hop to another jib within days. Mostly they could expect a regular wage for years to come, with progression, and be able to pay their rent, or even buy a home, on the wage of a skilled production worker. (3-bed home = 3 years average salary): Now it’s temporary contracts, scrabbling for gig work, rents being racked. (Average home = 7 years average salary + wildly fluctuating interest rates.)
Corporate politicians that prioritize millionaires and profits over humans are literally killing us.
Yet everyone here worships the most corporate politician of them all Joe Biden
That's why we all must vote blue 💙🔵 straight up and down the ballot 🗳️. Almost all Republican politicians put profits over people.
@@user-jc7kc5ub6o I am voting blue, but both sides have been corrupted by money. We should be demanding that lobbying be made illegal and taking the money out of politics and instituting a wealth tax
No the Green Party want to help everyone. Jill stein is a good person.
Millionares existing has no effect on birthrates, it's like you didn't watch the video
My 27 yr old granddaughter won't get pregnant because we live in Texas. This was bound to lower the birth rate when the fear that medical help won't be there if a problem arises.
Don't 1 in about 5 pregnancies have problems?
@@joannaquanttumphysics and that's ok no no and no! So play the lotto with lives foh
I'm trying to get things situated so that the younger women in the family can move if they want to before starting their families. I worry about their safety.
@@bjdefilippo447 bless you.
Republicans have a fine talking point saying they care about the unborn child etc, but once that child is born, they sure don't seem to give a damn do they? School lunches, nah. That's not important. It is very much a fear factor! Control. Power. Having a kid used to mean special times, blessings, and love was in your future! Now, something amazing has been turned into: "an entire life thrown away" for a tad bit of fun. Crazy.
Hopefully the American Dream can make a comeback and soon, or there won't be much of an America to live in.
The wolves are upset the sheep aren’t reproducing
Wow imagine how that works!’ Hmmm 👍
They need their worker bees.
I'm concerned the sheep aren't even fornicating.
Best analogy ever of what's going on in this country, thank you.
@@danieldickson8591 That's okay, they will just be lab grown babies in artificial wombs enabling Brave New World forever.
Wonder if people aren’t having babies because they realize things are getting shittier
Climate change has to be a factor. The world is getting increasingly uninhabitable in many areas. Anyone having kids right now is gonna see a hard life for their kids by the end of their own life and what's gonna be left for their kids after they're gone? And corporate cruelty and free reign doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
@@AuntieMamies lmao stop with your bullshit climate change
That could actually be physiological as much as psychological. Our bodies interpret stress to mean it's not a good time to have babies. So not only are people choosing to have babies less, but they're finding it more difficult to have babies even if they choose to.
That's part of the reason I didn't.
That's part of the reason I didn't.
People are realizing that having kids just isn’t worth it… and it’s *_expensive._*
who cares. It's good news I guess.
Kids have always been expensive. Not a good point
@@dynamicdave2647Yes, kids are.. but they get more expensive and where are the wages compared to that inflation? Keeping up? I dont think so. People aren't totally inept to understand money doesn't go as far as it used to. Especially where kids are concerned!
@@dhn2549 That's just not true. Money incentives haven't work....this is not about money.
Precisely.
You mean if you make life unaffordable, people have fewer babies? That’s unbelievable!!! Who would have imagined such a thing!?!?
But we have increased productivity.
@@garryferrington811 And yet, somehow that doesn't translate into improved wages and living conditions. Color me shocked.
It has less to do with ‘urbanization’ and ‘information society and farmers procreating for slave hands’ than women are NoT falling for the patriarchal nuclear family SHAM.
What? If they're low income they get free healthcare, daycare rebates, food stamps, lower taxes , child tax credits...get real.
@chadster7547 If you really believe this you must be doing OK.
Why would any woman take a chance as long as politicians have a say in their health!
But these same women want the government to force you to accept their degenerate lifestyles
ABORTION IS NOT HEALTH. YOU HAVE A SPIRITUAL SICKNESS
omfg stfu what you said literally makes no fuking sense
their health ? you mean killing babies ?
Why would any man take a chance as long as courts have all the say?
The rich and greedy are making our planet uninhabitable. Bringing children into a world where they will suffer the consequences of pollution and climate change is just plain _cruel._
I completely agree
That’s right, I’m not bringing children into this world only to suffer and be slaves to the system
You’re really buying into all this ‘climate change’ rubbish aren’t you?
@@helen677it’s not rubbish and if you understood anything about climate and weather patterns you would know it’s not rubbish
@@Gregbuskte12424 yes it is.
With the Supreme Court being focused on what you do with your body, and refusing you care when pregnancy has a complication, who would want to take the risk of kids.
Statistically pro lifers. Do take of Illegals you claim care about actual claiming to be sanctuaries
People who don't want to murder their babies?
That's exactly why they'll target birth control next.
Exactly. Female sterilization and female celibacy has increased since Roe v Wade was overturned.
@KidKID-sv8sv Oh no, the militant feminists aren't having kids...
Meanwhile, I've got two. Guess who the next generation belongs to?
I would love to have a kid. I"d be thrilled to be a dad. But I've decided i will never choose to become a parent unless i win the lottery. There is no way I can live with the stress of a hospital bill, child day care cost, and no vacation trips or spending little time with family while we both work in this current system.
Yeah it's ridiculously expensive to have a kid in the USA. I just have one kid myself. Glad I didn't have more
Unless you have a relative or friend willing to watch your kid for you don't even bother working... you will basically be working for very little more than you pay to have your kids raised by a stranger. America just doesn't like kids and it shows in our child-care system. America obviously needs workers and new citizens so it would seem we prefer immigrants to our own citizens having children.
@mnn1265 when we had my son 17 years ago, the cheapest daycare we could find was $2400 per month. My take home at the time was $2500 per month. Luckily we were able to adjust our work schedules so that one of us was always home but if that hadn't been an option, we would have had a real problem.
This is what other countries understand. They pay higher taxes to give parents the support systems they need beginning with health care. Some have some level of free college.
I would love to adopt a waiting child from foster care. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to do so unless I want to live on the poverty line, and I refuse to willingly and knowingly put myself in that position.
Having a child now is like carrying firewood into a burning building.
Ethically that has always been the case, but yes, it seems particularly bad now.
Funny, but sadly true. 😂
There is not a single ethical reason that can be given for bringing new humans into this massively overpopulated planet.
When in human history was it not that? The generation and the people who have it the easiest of almost anyone who has ever lived ever complains the most. We need to get off the internet and go touch some grass.
Great analogy
Young folks are priced out of education & home ownership. Having Kids is pretty far down the list right now.
Too many people shouldn’t be having kids anyway.
Facts.
Unfortunately, it's the idiots that are out having children. My sister in law, for example, had ONE life goal. ONE.
To have eight kids before thirty....
Luckily she didn't succeed because of medical reasons but she did manage to have six which is close enough in my book.
And then her eldest daughter, at the age of sixteen, decided that she wanted to be just like her mum BUT BETTER! So she set the goal marker at twelve kids for herself.
She managed to have four before she died due to postpartum depression. She lived in a very rural area where people often said shit like "therapy doesn't work" and "if you're sad, you're doing something wrong."
'Murica...
The only good take here
The problem is, the current retirement system relies on increasing population. If you want to say "oh, everyone should be having less kids" then prepare for your retirement check to be cut dramatically.
@@steftrando This is why we SHOULD allow immigrants in…they pay taxes. They will make up for the birth rate.
As a woman, I’d be terrified to have a baby in this hostile environment. If my child was no longer viable or I could be compromised. My government isn’t forcing me to stay pregnant
They'll force you to carry. Limit your travel interstate for care. Soon, They'll monitor your cycle/pregnancy apps to make sure you stay pregnant. Prosecute you for getting care. Prevent you from getting Plan B or BC. The dystopia continues....
There were plenty of “hostile” times in human history where women still gave birth in.
@@wz8881so?? Are you giving up your body to birth them?!?!
You’re too old to have kids don’t worry about old lady
No woman owes anyone her uterus. I'm a a man. Nobody forces me to clear fileds of grass because "oooh, upper body strength". The patriarchy be wild.
America has a horrible child care situation so I'm not surprised that people aren't having kids.
But its the same in countries that have great child care situations - their population is still declining...
Meanwhile, poor counties that don't even have a concept of child care have high birthrates.
So, while its a nice way for you to vent your frustrations at the US child care system and its issues, it doesn't seem like the cause or even really a factor in US birthrates. Open to evidence though...
@@BakerWase Its the internet era..the people's hormones aren't going to be flowing form browsing alone all day with no exercise, sun or socializing...working remote will make it even worse.
@@BakerWase Many of those countries have had lower birth rates than America for decades despite the fact that we have led the world economically for that same period. America is much more diverse and has a tradition of strong immigration and that has helped keep birth rates up despite our wealth... can you imagine how low birth rates would have been in those countries if they had anti-child care policies like the US has today? They would probably have strong negative growth even worse than say, Japan. That's not really an argument and finding evidence is not very difficult - "In a survey of more than 2,000 U.S. parents conducted by The Harris Poll for NerdWallet, more than 1 in 5 U.S. parents of children under 18 say they don’t plan to have another child because the cost would be too high." I think it is obvious to anyone contemplating having children in America, and I have four myself, that cost is a major negative factor.
@@BakerWase Which poor countries are you referring too?
@@TheAverageGenius Niger, Angola, Benin, Malin, Uganda, Chad etc. Many of these places have huge issues, are very poor and war riddled and somehow they all still have kids - so clearly money or the thought of societal prospect isn't causal factor in determining birthrates(or it is, but its inverse to what you're assuming)...
I would never force an innocent child to be born into this evil world.
omg you need therpay
Therapy is what convinced me of this conviction.
No woman of childbearing ages wants to risk it.
Risk what? Having babies has been safer in recent years. With the C-section and all.
If she has a miscarriage, they may not do a d&c to get the fetus out and save her life, for one thing.
The baby dying in the womb or having a condition where life outside the womb is unsustainable....woman can get a life-threatening infection or even become infertile if not treated. They can even die from these situations.
With the anti-woman MAGAts in the SCOTUS putting women at phsyical risks I don't blame them. Fortunately, I live in a state with strong support for women's freedoms so my wife is still planning to have one more child... though only one of us can afford to work if that happens. Child care is incredibly expensive, hard to find quality care-givers, and really just not worth it considering you will net very little to basically pay someone else to raise your kid. As a teacher my wife would clear about $500/mo after paying for child-care - if we are lucky enough for an opening. Our culture obviously doesn't like kids and certainly does little to help people have families.
@@animechic420not in anti abortion states it isn’t.
Nobody has baby money. The gluttons have everything.
Then be a man and do something oh wait you’re a coward with no balls
So you agree África is the richest of them all.
@@cinnamonstar808 no there low iq helps them breed not only that a lot of women get graped there
I got a vasectomy so I did my part.
😂😂😂 this comment is cracking me up but I feel ya lol
Smart man
I'm doing my part!
It's something every man should consider. Being one broken condom or missed pill away from 18 years of financial obligation is not a good place to be, especially if children aren't something you want at all.
Good job ending your genetic line!
Male birth control pill is coming
Too expensive to have kids. The government barely subsidizes it anymore, and being rich gives better tax breaks.
poor excuses, having kids in europe is pretty much free and women still dont have them
Sometimes, the biggest act of love is to not bring a child into a corrupt evil world!
youre seriously falling for this chinese propaganda?
If red states ban abortion, who is responsible for the health care of those forced to give birth and the resulting unwanted infant ?
Is it any different from illegal immigrants? Or asylum seekers like amos yee
Parts of Children's Protective Services and the Foster Care System are privatized. The tax dollars that used to go to those state run systems, are now given to private 3rd party companies, that are likely established by the politicians themselves. You can bet they're getting a cut of those tax dollars somehow.
I think i read that Texas had 10k+ births last year and i wonder how many of those children will grow up in terrible circumstances due to the resentment of their parents against the State. A baby is cute for a while but the novelty wears off quickly unless you're all in. It will be heartbreaking to find out how many of those babies end up in the system.
Also, most red states refused to take federal money for healthcare expansion. They won't require sex ed. They ignore infrastructure and hate education, so these young people are just stuck.
Throw in religion and you've got a new conservative army.
The same people as always.
Everything in the U.S. is expensive and our lawmakers are determined to force women to give birth. I’m not surprised this is happening.
"Force women to give birth" omg really ??? are they forcible impregnating them ? 😰😰😯😯
Because abortion will improve birthrates lmao
yall should never had the choice
If you are a woman wanting a baby, what do we expect when pregnancies-gone-wrong are refused life saving care even in the Hospital Emergency Room in Anti-Abortion States? Why would you risk dying to have children? Will the majority of babies we see in the future be those of the Poor who cannot afford to travel for health care or to raise a child? How much is it going to cost States to keep, feed and clothe all these unwanted kids until they are 18? Why do dogs, cats and horses have better Reproductive Health Care than humans in those States?
Or just have the baby early. Stop fear mongering with lies
@@sentientfetus3894 no lie there.
That's just the most recent factor in birth-rates dropping.
@@sentientfetus3894I hope you don’t think health complications only happen to older women lol 😂
@@Latte-girly90 yes yes they do
My niece was pregnant last year, her baby passed in her uterus she had to deliver him! She lives in a red state 😢so sad!!! She will be moving and trying again!
So sorry for the loss
@@phillynurse9492 I understand ppl abuse abortion but some don't
I send my love to your niece. 🥺😔❤️
@@Gloria_Riveramost people don’t, no woman i can think of goes into the third trimester to just decide to have an abortion at the finish line, its always a medical reason at that point.
@@mlpfanboy1701 exactly but the narrative
Who would want to bring a baby into this dystopian country? It has a lot to do with parents who can't afford to have children. Working two jobs,unable to pay for rent and grocheries? Not to mention what a car costs and gas prices. And getting an electric car? Unbelievable!
Groceries. It's pronounced gro-sur-ees, not groshries.
I get the feeling that in years to come the population of Canada is going to explode as southern American immigrants realise the dream they thought the US was is actually further north 🤣
Sure it's far from perfect with plenty of its own problems, but compared to the current mess in the US it's just a drop in the bucket really.
@@garryferrington811
Bruuuh, a one letter typo doesn't deserve that response 🤦♂
@@garryferrington811so glad you're here, doing god's work.
I presume you mean the US. UA-cam is accessible worldwide - and the issues are the same everywhere. However, I strongly encourage you to get an electric bike. They are absolutely amazing, and your fuel costs will drop dramatically.
ITS TOO EXPENSIVE TO LIVE. Why would i want to increase the price?
As a mom of a toddler, I can confirm that having children is prohibitively expensive for most people, and a logistical nightmare too. Maybe as a country we should stop actively punishing parents for having actual life responsibilities.
Or maybe you should just not have had kids in the first place.
Well, this is a video about declining birthrates, and I'm pointing out why people are choosing not to have children. Also...you can be solidly middle class, and feel very certain that you can take care of a child...but life can throw you complications that you didn't account for, and aren't able to easily handle. If we're saying it's a problem that people aren't having enough children, really the only way to remedy that is to make sure becoming a parent doesn't actively destroy any stability you may have in life (kids do that enough on their own).
@@melissadelong4290 That's another great reason to not have kids. You can't have any problems if you were never born in the first place.
@@peopleofearth6250 So your argument is that instead of civilization trying to support parents a little better, we just should never have children? That's very silly.
@@melissadelong4290 If that is your opinion then you shouldn't be having kids, but of course you do anyways because we live in an Idiocracy.
Why on earth would anyone have children? You need a second high paying job just to get a babysitter
So true! I had my 3rd child in 91. I was working at a pharmacy making minimum wage. My husband did have a job where his 1 days pay equaled my entire weeks pay. What I paid for daycare took my paycheck,except about $20.! I was working to pay someone so they didn't have to go out and work in the public!! I finally told my husband that I was quitting work,and told him after babysitter,I brought home $20 dollars, and that went for gas! So,I quit,and saved on gas,and I do believe my daughter was happier,too.
So what? I’d rather be poor and have children than be middle class and have none. To each their own I guess but money isn’t as important to me as family.
@@jakegetrost4690 imagine being brainwashed not to have kids. These people are going to be the reason that humanity pretty much dies out.
@@jakegetrost4690to properly take care of children, money is important, without money your children would be better off with someone else who has money.
@@jakegetrost4690
Not everyone wants to be poor.
And Jake...it would be the woman being pregnant, birthing and looking after tge children, NOT you.
If Elon says have babies......Don't!
Always do that opposite with Musk.
Someone ask that fool if he's going to pay to raise that child,including 4 years of college!😂😂
That's why he's a billionaire and you have nothing
@@KingKeno777musk is rich because he fell out of the right trophy wife vag. Beyond that, he is an absolute moron. Just like you.
@@KingKeno777 You have it backwards. Only a billionaire would be so out of touch with the reality of most wage earners to believe decently raising a child is affordable.
@@9000ck pakman is nowhere near billionaire status but he seems to think we should be pumping out kids too
7 billion is enough.
Eight billion actually as of last year.
Apparently not, Mr Pakman had kid s
People should stop having as many babies and let it gently go down to 5 billion. It will reduce the strain on the planet drastically.
No it’s not
Everyone should be required to have at least 30 kids. Jail otherwise
Kids are expensive. And loud.
It's just not worth it.
And stupid.
You can't expect kids cleaning up your shit, because you failed them.
Men realizing that obsessing over abortion and fertility doesn’t actually make women want kids 🙄 We aren’t falling for it anymore. We are tired of being told to constantly have kids by men, when we are the ones burdened with all the health risk and all the labor in raising them. We aren’t societies incubator anymore. Yall want kids? Then step up and start encouraging men to be active fathers and give women adequate maternal care and leave time
But still birth rates still go up when place restricts or out laws fetuscide and abortion. No matter college feminist sources say data shows opposite.
And women can babies in commas. So much of what do I. Favor of women actually hinters the reason we favor women in the first place
@@sentientfetus3894not sure about that one, but birth control decreases birth rates
@@sentientfetus3894well there’s a abortion bans all over the country and the rate is still down lol the solution is actually really simple. Stop making society so violent towards women and children
@@sentientfetus3894 I'm not going to try to force a conversation with someone that struggles with basic English, sorry
No man is telling you to have kids, it is the woman's choice to have a baby.
Well, nothing gets the ladies motor running like making laws telling them what to do with their body.
cry me a river
Mothers have told me that there's no way they would plan a pregnancy now - it's just too dangerous if something goes wrong. Everyone should make it a point to personally thank ACB & the rest of SCOTUS for this babylessness...
Huh? Birth rates have been slowly declining for like 20 years. Free access to abortion doesn’t increase birth rates, that much should be simple. As such, restricted access to abortion can’t be responsible for a decrease in the birth rate.
@@oakinwol what? Your logic doesn’t work. There are very good reasons why restricting access to abortion will decrease the birth rate. Women who are afraid they will be allowed to die if they have pregnancy complications are less likely to get pregnant than women who think they will get help. Women who feel that the aim of this legislation is to weaken women’s security or stability are less likely to get pregnant than women not subjected to this sort of legislation. Women who think it’s meant to give men power over women may stop engaging in hetero relationships with men to protect themselves and their autonomy.
In an age where the cost of living is rapidly increasing and majority of people feel financially insecure, are we surprised that having a baby is not an immediate priority?
All Republicans did was stress women out. I wouldn’t be surprised if married couples significantly decreased their love life due to the possibility of an unintended pregnancy.
We did.
That last sentence. Truth.
The young married men are getting vasectomies
They want low wage earners to have more kids. Why should they struggle without help?
If we want another baby boom, we need another new deal. If you can’t make a living wage you won’t be motivated to have babies.
You also lose all your freedom. Having kids isn't a requirement for many anymore. We want to live our life and not have the burden of providing for someone else
@@alesitercrimson24 thats why you shouldnt have the choice, if women are that egositic...
@@alesitercrimson24 If you cant provide for someone else you might as well be kicked onto the streets to rot. And you have that burden anyway in your work. Because work is providing services to others so you can buy the services of the people working like you are.
And losing you freedom? Dont make me laugh how the hell does having a child make you loose any freedom? You can give them away at any time and you control exactly how you raise and take care of them. And if you actually cared about anyone else other than yourself you would know that if you raised one well you would have a loving friend for life(your grown up child) that cares about you deeply.
A kid can drag you below the poverty line in just a few years if you’re not getting a welfare check or free labor out of them.
No....
Newsflash. Welfare checks don't keep you out of poverty. 😂
@@crismcdonough2804 Critical thinking is important. Welfare checks won’t drag you below the poverty line because you’re already there . Making the original statement correct.
@@jalightbourne how many babies provide free labor? 😂
@@crismcdonough2804 They do in Africa, that's why the birth rates are higher there.
It's simply too expensive to have kids. Not just literally but by effect; constant economic adversity force young ppl to prioritize jobs, finances, long training programs, survive, etc.
Fertility rate analysis is complicated... For starters, what David said was absolutely true. It is dropping across the world and will continue to do so.
One of the ways to increase fertility rates is to incentivize having children, despite them not having any household labour to do or whatnot. This includes things like free childcare, maternity/paternity leave, child tax credits and so on.
The fertility rates will still fall, but they won't fall off as rapidly as we're seeing now.
Children are too expensive in this economy. School is dangerous and their curriculum is getting more and more ridiculous depending on the state you live in. Housing costs have risen sharply in the last thirty years and the government will not step in and stop it.
Because of Trump and the SCOTUS nightmare we currently have, there is a high risk of death with pregnancy. Who needs that?
Why would we want to incentivize having children? I like to share the planet with other animals.
@@fionakelleghan3267 I love animals as well but it's an economic issue
What you say has merit but this is happening in the west. Look up the culture trend in western countries. What you will see if you go in unbiased is that a lot of social media puts out the same message to women and men
@@AuntieMamies F the economy. That's no reason to bring kids into this mess, what kind of life will they have?
@@AuntieMamies It's a complex issue with many factors, but that's certainly a crucial one.
Population decline sounds good to me.
Why?
Why?
@@thewhiteknightmanwhy? Because humans are trashing the planet and it's become worse and worse. Haven't you heard of the IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports? The future looks very bleak. Or maybe you just don't care about the environment and prefer to subscribe to the massive Ponzi scheme of endlessly procreating.
There is population decline only in developed nations. The rest of the world does not care about your virtue signaling and adheres to normal thinking like having kids is a good thing. People in the west have become delusional.
Population is only declining in non muslim countries
Basing the economy on growth works no more. To much environmental damage.
I was wondering when a commenter would mention this. The whole "constant growth" scenario only works if there is room to grow. We need to scrap the growth model and go for sustainability.
Yep. Parkman doesn’t realize that it takes over 1.5 Earths to sustain our current 8.2 billion people. By using more resources than our planet currently has, we are so damaging the natural systems that allow life to exist that we are actually lowering the carrying capacity of our planet. Amazing how otherwise smart people can be so ignorant.
@@annalieff-saxby568 An Indian coworker of mine said people in India have kids to pay for future taxes and retirement plan. I answered, your country is overpopulated, polluted, and is infested with diseases. She walked away, and never spoke to me again. Remember during COVID, when bodies floated down rivers in India, because the government didn't have the resources to dispose of all the bodies in a timely manner.
It’s tooo expensive out here lmaoo we ain’t dumb popping out kids we can’t afford
I think part of the reason why fertility rate is dropping is because it's too expensive to have kids for a lot of us nowadays and with birth control we are able to avoid it. We are living in a society right now where a lot of people can't make enough money to support kids (the rich and corporations are taking all the money) so they either avoid having them or have fewer of them.
Fertility rate is the ability to have kids. Birth rate has to do with how many births their are. The two are not the same. Otherwise I agree. People are just choosing not to have them regardless of ability. It's expensive to be pregnant, it's expensive to give birth, it's expensive to raise them. Companies keep raising prices unnecessarily which isn't helping matters. The wealthy keep ditching tax responsibilities which is also not helping. We could have a universal health care and much better education if they would be responsible citizens. Giving tax breaks to companies that give their lower level employes an honest living wage would help leaps and bounds.
Less idiots on the highway you say? Good deal.
no ur gonna have just idiots now, cuz they import them and idiots have more kids
If the population goes up, they will have to add another road to the highway in front of my grandparents old house. The population going down is a good thing long-term. It’s getting ridiculous.
Economy is too broken for kids right now
People just can’t afford to have kids.
Elon musk needs to pay a bigger salary if he wants more babies
Boom!
Exactly
Don't have children if you can't feed, clothe and house them and provide healthcare for them and spend time with them, especially until school age. Fewer and fewer adults under 50 can do this.
There's literally too many people. Just over 100 years ago there was inly about a billion people...now theres 8 billion. We need to cut back on the kids.
These billionaires who say we need a higher birthing rate should be the first to offer a million dollars for women to have a child as an incentive. It takes that much to raise a child from conception to adulthood.
It's about time. People are learning they don't HAVE to have children to live a happy life. Cost is a consideration too. I think moving away from religion plays a role too. I love kids. They get me and I get them. But deciding to not have a kid when I was married was the best decision I ever made. Also one of the most selfless.
My daughter, 30, says she won't have kids because theyll just get shot in school. Blame the gun nuts for the falling birth rate.
It should be required by law to have kids
@@buzzlightyearlight1247 you can have my uterus. 40 weeks of pregnancy is loads of fun. And spending all your money raising them is effing fantastic.
Hope you get locked up
@@buzzlightyearlight1247 Absolutely not. I would rather go to jail than have children.
That's incredibly stupid
Why would people have kids when houses are basically out of reach for most young people? The proposition is take on the expense of having kids while transferring the bulk of your income to a landlord, student loans, car payments and credit cards with 20%+ interest. This is the least surprising thing I've heard in quite some time.
The replacement birthrate (the number of births per woman to maintain the population) is 2.1. Many women only want one or two children. Also, the number of women who are childless has skyrocketed. (The chances of a woman over 30 having her first child is 50%). I believe we need a new economic model not based on infinite growth. Infinite growth is unsustainable on a finite planet regardless of birth rates.
40 years old here. Never liked or wanted kids, no regrets. I am childFREE not childLESS - I don't miss anything.
Oh goodness, when the quality of males to choose from mostly are & sound like you, this is why most women are choosing to be chilledFREE. Imagine breeding an offspring with subpart genetics that's this below bare minimum? No thanks
@@livingonhighvibe Average middle aged Karen:
@@stagnant-name5851 get over it, breeder - happy, healthy, wealthy here - no species with a p**is nor annoying spawn needed here. You go and breed, if you are so inclined.
@@stagnant-name5851 average butthurt male. LOL
Who would want to bring kids into this world? Even if you wanted to, this world clearly isn't going well.
That’s your cynicism and liberal pessimism talking. Fertility rates were higher during that Black Death than they are now. Women used to risk their lives to have children because people knew what was important in life which is family. You should look at the Jewish, muslim, Amish, Mormon, communities. Liberals can learn a thing or two from them
People still don't care here and keep having them. Wearing blinders to the fact it's beyond dumb to have kids right now
People during the Dark Ages, and World War 1 and 2 had kids, and it was worse then then it is now, but no problem. It's just a matter of how you choose to see things. If you keep surrounding yourself with negative vibrations, that is all you will see.
@@konstantinrebrov675 it doesn't matter. I would still be dooming them to work to survive for the rest of those lives. Social security is gonna be non existent for me let alone them. I can't afford to never work again. So by default any child I would have is just gonna be a cog in the capitalist machine. It could have a good/decent life but it's statistically gonna be middle class because I'm middle class. Why would I do that to someone else.
It's obvious why, people cant afford houses so, how would a responsible couple start a family?
infinite growth = infinite problems
The average cost of childbirth in the US, including pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum care, is $18,865
No nationalized healthcare and no maternity leave.
I don't see it as a problem. We have 335 millions, so how many more of us do we need? Fortunately, it's never been a problem for me. I knew I was single for life. I enjoy living alone. The genes stopped here. We're living longer, so we should be retiring later and producing more instead of losing skills to retirement.
Look into dependancy ratios. You can't just take an absolute number like 335 and assume we're all good. How old are what different age groups etc ? The US is actually doing better than most conutries on this point, but look at Japan for example. They have more and more people needing to retire and less and less young people to actually service their economy.
The reason they're banning abortions, is the projection that there will be a shortage of sheeple for jobs in the future. In a 'worker' market, they'll have to pay more to get workers. That will mean less profits for the corporate elite, and they can't have that. We're not allowed to 'live' like normal humans in the US, we're all just struggling to survive.
@@BakerWase Look at the farm/non-farm dependency ratio. Before 1900 the ratio was close to 50-50. In the meantime, the number of farmers shrunk to about 1 percent of the nation while the population to be fed grew by more than 300 percent.
So long as productivity grows ahead of needs, capacity to support the retired, disabled, unemployed, and children is sustainable.
@@stevebeers9768 How does that apply in Japan though? Productivity did increase so GDP per capita went up even while their population shrunk; yet the dependency ratio still means many elderly in Japan cannot retire.
Its a genuine question, not a gotcha. Even with enough food, you still need service workers to actually service the needs of those whom want to retire.
@@BakerWase Food production is of course not the only factor. I'm saying the answer to forecasted shortages of resources in both cases is the same -- we can manage growing numbers of nonworkers with greater productivity. It's a manageable problem.
Demographics aren't destiny if we either alter the system to fund retirement in a way not tied to jobs; and/or increase taxes/plan contributions in the current unreformed systems. We can afford it.
Secondarily, the question is one of social priorities if productivity growth does lag or system spending needs increase. We'll still have more than enough if lengthening lifespans are taken as being progress more than a problem, and if we decide to fund more of that priority over other things.
There may be a jobs/skills mismatch for elder care, but so far that seems mainly about whether we are willing to pay enough, raise status and working conditions for those workers to get quality home health care.
Incidentally, Elon Musk warns about dangers of AI taking jobs away while saying we should all have ten kids like him! Perhaps for every high-tech job eliminated by robots we can make a high-touch job with human services and can afford to pay these new elder care positions decently by taxing robots!
Or robots can directly replace/assist some home health aide functions -- as they increasingly are in Japan. Or, if the Japanese get over some ethno-exclusiveness, they can import more foreign workers to do some of the necessary work of their society. As can we.
Chances are we will muddle through, doing some of all of this.
The farmer is mad the pigs aren’t having piglets
And as farms are if extra food and better shelter(Money and incentives) does not increase the birthrate he will force them to have children.
@@stagnant-name5851 nah the species just reaches a sink population, hand maids tale type scenario will just lead to rebellion/war/anarchy/violence and people going extinct faster lol.
Well if they could bother to make this world one people wanted to bring children into maybe there would be more births. Between climate change and the exceeding financial difficulties regular people endure I can't believe anyone at all ever has babies. I have decided not to have children, have gotten surgery to make sure it doesn't happen, and I'm happy about it
Poor people with horrible lives in third world countries mass produce babies like factories. It's not that. It's just that you and me are superrr privileged. We take the lives we have that we think are poor but really are opulent and easy compared to the average and think when the world gets slightly worse we wont have children.. Cuz poor boo hoo. climate Boo hoo. Politic boo hoo.
It's just too expensive to raise children. Do you know how much you have to put away for college for 18 years so your kid can go to a great school? Start with $5,000 (which most people do not have) and then, put in $535 a month for the next 18 years.
A lot of families cannot afford this. This doesn't include the cost of raising the child (healthcare, schools (what if your local schools are terrible? Got an extra 20k for private school every year?) activities, feeding and clothing them (food is all incredibly expensive).
The government basically would have to offer every family a stipend per child to try to help with the cost.
And it's more expensive when you have a child that has a terminal illness or severe autism
If you're gonna have a lot of your young people living paycheck to paycheck, where the hell are they supposed to find the time and money to have children?
It's not just the US, countries across the developed world have been screwing over the younger generation for decades and now it's costing them in fertility rate.
GEE I WONDER WHY.
There’s not enough room for anymore people. We can’t get along now, adding more people won’t help only make things worse.
I rather have no children than bring another person to a dystopian existence. I'm doing fine because I chose to have no children, but I'm still loking forward to retire in Europe where people get together every single day because they are not exhausted or super stressed from work.
I live in Florida, I don't like it now and its going to get worse.
Exactly leave the US and Florida as soon as possible it's a dystopian nightmare
I'm afraid it's no better in most European countries unless you've found a mythical one I've never heard of.
It's almost like no one has any time or money to raise kids
You are completely WRONG, Mr. Pakman!! Humans cannot survive if they occupy and pave over every scrap of land! We NEED open spaces and wildlife. Not to mention all the areas becoming unlivable due to climate change. You cannot survive with unlimited growth. Nature will check the human species, just as it does with any that becomes problematic.
Also, a huge omission in why families became smaller is healthcare. When babies and children died frequently, families would have more children. Not to mention the lack of adequate and legal healthcare options for women.
"Also, a huge omission in why families became smaller is healthcare. "
Do you have any evidence for that ? I see it claimed alot, but the fact remains that the countries with the highest birthrates have no healthcare at all. Those with the lowest birthrates (Japan, Singapore, HK) have the best healthcare and are top 10 in GDP per capita.
Have a look at a cemetery from the 1800s. The evidence of infant and child deaths is right there, set in stone.
@@BakerWaseThe question is not how many children are born, but how many _survive._
So why have humans moved to cities in mass? Is it because it's most dangerous then open space ?.... i think you need to chill and read on the matter instead of making stuff up.
@@mat3714 Because cities are where the jobs are. People still need parks, greenery and open space.
Its just nature being like, this human experiment has been a total flop, don't cha think ?!?
Who knows, maybe that's not as daft as it sounds...maybe that's why there's gays.
Agent Smith was right. Humans are the worst virus on this planet.
Good, get it lower.
Too dangerous and unaffordable to be pregnant 😅.
The Czech Republic, has universal free preschool, 2 years of mat leave and a guaranteed return to your previous job after the 2 years for women. The birth rate is 1.60, which is significantly higher than most western countries. The country also has rent controls, yearly limits on property value increases, and a strong non market housing sector, mostly through coops. This social democratic model, should be what we aspire to.
My sister and niece will be visiting the CR this summer, and I wish so much that I could go with them.
And I'm wondering just how many republicans would go into heart failure on that one... wait... hmm...
Anyone who looks like they could push these programs successfully in this country will have a very short life.
@@afry6400 Yes, and also from the 50% of income going to tax and social security dues would prob cause sudden unaliving. They basically decided, let's do capitalism and democracy, but keep the good things from socialism.
@@fionakelleghan3267 My mom is from there. It's a beautiful country, except for the commie blocks of course, those are fuggly. But at least there isn't a housing crisis.
Many third world nations don’t have adequate birth control, they want it but don’t have it. Families with 2 children in 3rd world nations ask aid workers for birth control. They want to focus their resources on just 2.
Since we are experiencing the highest income inequality in a 100 years, it's possible those things are correlated. I haven't had kids because I can't afford them, but that's my experience.
I think you mean 'income inequality', but yea. The minimum wage hasn't been increased in 13 years, compare that to the cost of living?
@@belle2541 yes, thanks for pointing that out.
Taxing millionaires and billionaires not to mention corporations would be a good first step.
Aside from the obvious issues (women's health care options being compromised, financial reasons...) choosing not to have children also carries less social stigma than it used to. I don't want kids, will never want them and made sure I hooked up with someone who feels the exact same way. We enjoy coming home to a quiet, clean, stress-free house after work, having the money and free time for hobbies, vacationing, etc. and actually being able to sleep. Having kids is a rewarding experience for some people but not everyone, and I think more people are realizing that you don't HAVE to have kids if you don't really want them.
The cost of living is too high, people can't afford kids,
Correction: They are too privileged to have kids.(im privileged too)
Free Medicare for all and free child care for all Americans just might fix that problem.
It certainly would help but the wealthy will have to stop pissing around with tax loops and right offs, pay their fair share so we can fund such things.
I think it won't. The country is too disillusioned.
And it's going to continue dropping to the point where you will _need_ immigrants to keep the economy "mobile". Agriculture and the care industry in particular will need to pay a _lot_ more, as will any number of currently underpaid positions, especially in the service sector, just to stay open.
We need immigrants, period. Americans love to say we live in the best country. How do they think it became so? (Ydych chi'n Gymro? 😊 )
Space is not the problem, water is the problem.
It's true. Sitting in my daughter and son's choir class, it was shocking how small the class sizes got over the past four years, and I'm in a desirable town in wealthy Bergen county nj where the houses are expensive and families used to * be able to afford it here.
The only way to improve brith rate is have a verry good wealth redistribution system.
It depends on who you are and your situation, whether you want kids or not. I also think overturning Roe for women, of course plays a role in this too.
I love my nieces, but I never wanted kids of my own. We can be nurturers without having that desire.
I wonder if this is related to the fact that the conditions in which to have kids are also the lowest in a 100 years. My $600K condo is a single bedroom, where the hell would I put kids, in my pantry cupboard?
You think that condition to have kids isn't better then in 1924 ? Stop making stuff up.
@@mat3714 The Great Depression notwithstanding. So....85 years then? In the past a single breadwinner could have a white picketed fenced house and a car, having someone at home to take care of kids and the space to raise them. Now it takes two people to make mortgage payments on a shoebox sized condo and to afford groceries. Unfortunately for you, none of that is made up.
@@MaxChipz I don't think you're equipped to have this conversation. Now stop replying bs and take some time out of you day ( for a while ) to learn about reality. Not your perception of reality.
@@mat3714 Well that's just like...your opinion man.
@@MaxChipz ignore that prick. I grew up in a 1-bedroom multigenerational apartment in absolute poverty in the USSR. These ding dongs who grew up in single family homes in the US have no grip about what impact this kind of upbringing gives to individuals. If he wants to have 10 kids in 1 bedroom apartment, let him. For us, who have more than two brain cells, we will live happily ever after without.
Unfortunately, it is risky to get pregnant and scary to raise children in this world today. What on earth will they have to deal with twenty or thirty years from now?
Mr Pakman had kids
@@zcorpalpha2462 And?
Just because a country is rich, that does mean the citizens are rich.
Its just too expensive to have children in the US. The same can be said of the G7.
To anyone saying that a low birth rate (less than 2.1) is good, just look at Japan. Its population started contracting around 2010 and it has been accelerating to a loss of 600,000 a year and will increase. By 2050 its population will contract about 30 percent from current levels. That has real consequences. The population grows older which means more resources have to go to sustain them. They have higher healthcare costs, pensions and other costs and are more likely not working. This shifts more resources away from investing in the future to cover the costs of sustaining those who don't have a future. Japan has a public debt that is over 200 percent of GDP as a consequence. That is not sustainable.
In the United States we have already done that when one looks at the transfer of wealth from the young to the old. The old hold the largest share of wealth at the expense of their children,
Awww so sad, less cattle for billionaires to exploit. Oh well
There may be 'plenty more room for people', but the strain on natural resources to feed and house those people is nothing to dismiss. Wester US states are running out of water, climate change will be harder to adapt to if we turned the tide of population trends. A steady decline is not a bad thing.
Maybe if people could afford homes they could work on having families. How can you raise a baby when neighbors who are a wall's thickness away dont keep quiet after 9pm? How can we have any sensible financial stability to have families when rents are closing in on a mortgage of a house with less square footage than the apartment?
Who would want to bring a child into this world, nobody can afford it, the middle class is destroyed.
This is the result of 4 decades of wealth redistribution. Young people can't afford to start families.
We can return the wealth distribution to what it looked like before Reagan, or we can watch everything collapse.
Let's see, having a child in the US... best case scenario, mountains of medical debt, worst case scenario the mother and/or fetus dies AND mountains of medical debt.
Yeah, I'm SO sure women are going to LOVE risking all that, without being given the chance to make that choice on their own! /S
Populations are supposed to ebb and flow, its normal. Falling birthrates wont make civilization collapse but it sure would break Capitalism, which is why the corporate overlords are panicking.
Ah, it's called progress. Many women just don't buy into needing children to have a fulfilling life. Also, we're not trying to play with our health in being pregnant and giving birth. Also, we've got to meet appropriate men who love us and want families they will HELP raise. Men are opting out of marriage as well. So there you go!
Having subsidized child care would help. The cost of child care is like going to college. I know this is added cost for the government, but it is getting impossible to work and also afford childcare. Don’t know the solution.
I think people are doing the solution. Don't have kids!