If you go to Google News and search U.S. birthrate you'll pull up a lot of articles. The Census Bureau recently published that our birthrate is at 1.7, below the 2.1 replacement rate. The lowest in 40 years. We're about 20 years from this starting to be a real problem, and about 50 years from being the serious population collapse that countries like China, Korea, Japan, and Germany are close to.
U.S. Birthrate
- Thread starter vantexan
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People can't afford to have kids
Thebrownblob
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Brown Down
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more true than alot of people want to believe.
DriveInDriveOut
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Sure they can, just not with the lifestyle they want to have. Poor people are the ones who are actually having kids at a normal rate.
Because they are getting lots of government assistance
Thebrownblob
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Hey, don’t sleep on that government cheese. It’s good stuff.
What'dyabringmetoday???
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Yeah- just ask the trustees of Teamster pensions.
DriveInDriveOut
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I hear what you're saying, but I don't think money is the main issue here. There's a lot of reasons but cultural rot is at the roots of it all.
Thebrownblob
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Comes down to what do you value more? Our society places, a high value on material things.. people not so much.
The younger generation definitely doesn't want the traditional house with a picket fence in two and a half kids
Thebrownblob
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Funny thing is When you get to the point that you can afford most of the things you want you realize they don’t really make you happy, at least not for very long.
DriveInDriveOut
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Our culture looks down on young people with kids. It's even frowned upon to get married young. Like they don't know what they're doing and they've made a mistake.
Well when people don't even start looking to get married until they're in their 30's, of course birth rate is going to drop.
Our society just values self above all else.
Unfortunately you are correct
You are correct
Wally
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They can, but these gals are trained to think careers are more important and they don't need a man.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
The more mouths to feed the greater the monthly check I receive is not a long term solution.
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