Quelle: CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Birth Gauge
Von Accomplished_Gur4368
Quelle: CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Birth Gauge
Von Accomplished_Gur4368
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I live in MA. I would say 80% of my friends are not having children. The ones that are got married in early 20s (but half of them are divorced lol).
No one has money, it’s all being hoarded by capitalists. Kids cost money.
* Money, especially housing costs
* Teens are better educated about preventing pregnancy (don’t overlook this, it’s a big one!)
* Social media
* Cultural shift towards autonomy, independence, and self fulfillment
* Women having/wanting fulfilling careers
* Later marriage
* Insane expectations of parenting
* Worry about money/housing/school/climate and how that will impact your children
* Uninvolved grandparents
* Everything is insanely expensive!
There are many reasons and they *all* have made this an irreversible trend. On some level I also think this is an ecological response to what we’ve done to the planet – the species knows it needs a rapid reduction in headcount to survive.
Yeah can’t afford children
Interesting factoid, the US fertillity rate in 1960 was almost 3.6, about the same as it is today in many sub-Saharan countries like Malawi, Rwanda, and Zinbabwe, and higher than it is in countries like Kenya and Ghana. I was born in the early 1960’s, and nearly every house on our block while growing up had multiple kids. Different world then.
Interesting, it correlates with cost of living.
It’s almost like no one has enough money to afford having children.
Middle class is disappearing. The wealth gap between the average person and the top 1% has widened to where having children is becoming exclusive to wealthier people.
Population decrease always shown red like it’s a bad thing. Higher productivity with fewer people means more to go around! This is *good*.
That’s a massive drop for Utah.
Everyone is going to get mad at the obvious and correct solution to this.
It has not and has never been about affordability. The highest birth rates are observed in poorer communities, immigrants, religious people. All the social democracies that provide free nannies and years long maternity leave have it worse. It’s not affordability.
I wonder the effect of the ACA regulations for long acting reversible birth control. I’m pretty sure the teen birth rate as a percentage has dropped a lot.
I’m amazed that Utah is below replacement.
Did Covid have fertility effects?
Now do rates of teenage pregnancy
Somehow still better than most of the world. The next hundred years is going to have some weird population stuff happening.
Hmmmm lemme look at these numbers and ascribe my own anecdotes and values to them.
Vermont being Vermont
Having a child? In this economy?!
Why Mormon states fall drastically, especially Utah
I would love to have more kids but I don’t have that kind of money.
I want to raise children. Make it affordable and I will.
Utah dropping off that much is nuts…or not nuts
Only the second time in history we’ve slipped below replacement. The other time was during the Great Depression if that tells you anything.
If this were to show 1970, 80, 90, 2000, 2010, and 2020, the sharp cut line would be Reagan. The MFer ended the middle class. The economic policies resulted in more than 30% of the population losing job security that has never recovered. Pile on Bush, Clinton and GeeDub Bush and we’re closer to 60%. You having to be irresponsible to consider having kids when your job can be gone simply because an investor wants to play chicken with politicians.
I didn’t have children (not by choice, just circumstance). My life is very full and I feel a sense of peace and freedom my friends with children do not. Sometimes I wonder “what if”, but I do not dwell in that long. There are many ways to live life.
We are way below replacement rates, but let’s panic about immigration. This country is ridiculous sometimes.