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Me? It’s cost of children AND education. Workers not wanting more than manual labor jobs to support themselves. Thus can't meet price requirements for kids.
It will be funny watching brown babies take over America. I’m all in GAG. Keep the MyTakes on anti immigration. Lol
Well, actually, neither proposed answer really covers it. In fact, as economies modernize and industrialize, birthrates tend to drop. That is pretty much the historical norm.
The reasons for this are complex. Leaving aside questions of religion - religious cultures tend to have higher birthrates and then, as secularization sets in, the imperative to "be fruitful and multiply" loses its' sociological/cultural force.
Further, in more primitive economies where farming and mercantile trade is the norm, the need for more children to "help in the fields" and such tends to result in higher birthrates. Not to mention that in such primitive cultures, the medical technologies tended to spur on higher birthrates.
This both because people tend to have more babies because the lifespan of newborn children tended to be shorter. Also, because the technology of birth control was not as advanced.
Then, as economies modernize and industrialize, the need for large families declines while the cost of such families tends to rise. Throw in then, too, that mortality rates decline and lifespans increase. So people tend to have fewer children, but they children they have live longer and are able to take care of their parents as their parents age.
Presently, the nations with the lowest birthrates are all heavily industrialized and modernized quickly. Japan has, in demographic terms, the oldest population on Earth. Italy the second. This because not only are these countries heavily industrialized, but they did so quickly.
Interestingly, the nation with the third oldest population on Earth is China. This because China experienced its' industrial revolution and economic modernization - and thanks to communism, its' secularization - relatively quickly by historical standards and then aggravated it with deliberate social engineering in the form of the "one child policy." A policy it enforced with vicious brutality.
Ironically, China has been rushing to reverse the decline in birthrates as it now realizes that such a decline has its' own negative effects. Yet, they have discovered that it is easier to prevent the birth of children than it is to re-start the machine, so to speak.
As to the USA, it has, by the standard of industrialized societies, a relatively high birthrate and young population. To be sure, the former is declining and the later aging, but by the norms of the industrialized world, the USA is relatively young in demographic terms - though aging for sure. This, in part, because of the relatively high rates of immigration from more Third World countries and also because religion remains more of a cultural and social force than in the rest of the industrialized world.
Thus, while the USA is experiencing the normal demographic patterns of the industrialized world, it is doing so at a relatively slower rate. This giving the USA a modest economic advantage.
Society has largely changed since 1950. For starters women are having children later in life like after 30. If you notice the way it generally works now in the west women will go to college and graduate and establish a career for 8 years before deciding to settle down with their long term fiancee after nearly 10 years of saving and within the first year of marraige have a kid or two and return to their career as they've a 30 year mortgage to pay. Of course it doesn't work out exactly to this plan for a lot of women and they struggle to have even one kid moving into their 40s.
Of course you are right that ilegal immigration does drive down wages so that supporting a family is very difficult.
If you want the birth rate to rise then western women are going to have to start marrying younger again and having kids again in their teens and twenties and at least four kids.
The day is too short for a woman who has to work full time job, taking care over household and taking care of kids. Not everyone has grand parents who can take care of children for 12 hours a day. I think kindergartens and elementary schools should take care for children for at least 12 hours 6 days per week when they want that women who have to work give birth to new system slaves. Maybe they will make some clones in the future because they slowly realize replacement immigration doesn't work. If third wordlers, they still import could create prosperous societies they would do that and wouldn't need to emigrate.
There was a time in my life when I thought I wanted kids. Then after I couldn't seem to find the right guy I looked around and saw how much families struggled. At a certain point I couldn't really see that much incentive to have children. I would eventually like to settle down with someone but beyond that having kids just seems to expensive and impractical.
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It's the responsibility of caring for kids. Most adults now are so fucking irresponsible they can barely care for themselves so how are they gonna care for a kid that will be totally dependent on them. Lack of basic skills including managing their finances so yes some is cost in that way.
Well, now that's impressive, Odd, a rant that exemplifies your racism, arrogance, and stupidity all in one place.
Since you can't have kids, you don't realize that 1) childcare is very expensive, 2) housing in a good school district is very expensive, 3) it's not easy finding the right person to have kids with, 4) raising kids requires a lot of self-sacrifice, something a lot of people, including many parents, aren't up for, and 5) there is a significant amount of economic instability for a lot of people. All of that is applicable to college graduates as well, especially ones with student loan debt.
education? you think colleges say "have less kids".
just kuz people go to college, two things at the same time are not a cause.
a cause is a cause.
like messing with genetics using r. n. a. vax that is a genetic cause.
but easier to fool people then for them to admit we were fooled.
it is also important to consider long term trends for the past 30 years less children born each year and even the rate lessened but then an ACCELERATION after the rna vax... and the need for "projection to predict increased growth" against the trend...
means the rna was intended to hurt fertility and increase the acceleration of the falling rate.
I think the responsibility element of it might be bigger than the financial element, honestly. I know a lot of people my age simply don't want the responsibility. They're worried about losing their freedom. It ends up being a bit of a joke because of how little they actually do in their day to day lives. I'm not sure what they'd have to do differently by having kids.
Everybody also talks about wanting to be in a good place mentally and emotionally before having kids. But... these are also the same people who do almost nothing to improve their mental and emotional health.
The issue just seems to be Millennials freaking out about growing up, per usual.
If it were merely cost that was the issue , Africa would not have a high birth rates, still nor would our impoverished ancestors.
Cost is the excuse we give ourselves for unrealistic expectation we have set for raising children. Expectations set as much by idiot cultural leaders as it is accepted by appealing to our personal greed and desire to have it all as promised by the same.
Cost is indeed an issue if you can't afford to make any living arrangement as is unfortunate the case in a nuclear family situation isolated from parents. But that in itself is indeed part of the problem.
We humans were never meant to grownup without our grandparents, and extended family support systems. We westerns have suffered greatly personalty, financially, and culturally for want of it.
Cost of it has jack fucking shit to do with it. How many people nowadays are in legitimate fear of famine and death caused by a harsh winter?
There are multiple reasons, you can boil them down to - people are selfish shits. These generations are incapable of taking care of kids. No love to give, no yearning for a family, no interest in changing themselves or making sacrifices for their family.
As for your comments, please explain to me exactly how this has nothing at all to do with feminism and is totally a problem caused by 'toxic masculinity', when the nations that have this issue are feminist nations?
Capitalism. Rich cunts using basic human needs as an avenue for personal profit at the expense of basically everyone else. People who are being pushed ever deeper into poverty by the greed of those arseholes can't even buy their own homes, let alone afford to raise children.
And funnily enough, Capitalism is ALSO to blame for all the immigration nonsense. Because there is nothing big companies love more than cheap labour and additional competition for resources to drive prices up.
People can't afford kids, they can barely afford to buy a house. You need both a house and money for children, then one of the parents needs time to raise the kids. All resources we are lacking in our poor countries (Yes, the west is currently poor I don't care what kind of international buying power we have, we can't afford basic things while they can).
A lot of reasons. People feel like they can't afford any/more kids, a growing amount of people simply don't want them, and the average age at which people are getting married and becoming parents is rising, which of course means that they can have fewer children.
There is no one reason, there are a number of reasosn as to why. The environment and global warming is one, the cost of living, technology leading to a lack of social interaction (this is notable in Japan) nearly half of all men under 40 are virgins in Japan. Feminism is another reason, it is leading to the genders hating on each other, being suspicious of each other and it is causing men to be shitted over by women, so they don't want kids with them anymore.
i'm out. i can move. let america destroy itself
people don't need a bunch of kids to work on the farm and bring in income.
Birth control.
Cost of raising kids.
Because people are more concerned with affording a baby than having one.
I support sexually liberal sex positive people's decision about not having kids.
If I couldn't say the costs my guess would be right wing media. Men can't easily be angry and horny at the same time and right wing media is 100% focused on keeping men angry 24/7. So, less sex and less babies..
Cost of kids and decline of society. People are giving up on the "American Dream."
Women can't find comparable men, acceptance of gay/lesbian has caused less births, you're right about costs, some even feel bringing a child into this current shit hole is not fair to that child.
The educated can see the issue of chronic overpopulation and don't wish to add to it
The uneducated can't afford the costs involved in child rearing
Men are no longer willing to be victimized by women who make false accusations to get money.
what you put down as A and every other degeneracy that leftists have started
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