U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low
National Review,
by
James Lynch
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
4/25/2024 10:45:57 AM
The U.S. fertility rate hit a new record-low last year, continuing a persistent trend that will have significant consequences for American society.
The total fertility rate dropped to 1.62 births per woman last year, a 2 percent decline from the year before, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control. The figure is below replacement level, meaning Americans are not having enough children to replace themselves, a development with major implications for the American economy.
The total fertility rate recorded by the CDC is the lowest since the U.S. government began tracking it nearly a century ago. It reflects a trend visible across the developed
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
BRDG 4/25/2024 10:50:02 AM (No. 1705819)
And "All Cause Mortality" is up around 20% in highly vaccinated countries. But you will be canceled for talking about it.
Hmmm.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/25/2024 11:02:17 AM (No. 1705828)
The Federally Approved American Woman does not need to have children; that job can be outsourced to the humans trafficked across the border.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 4/25/2024 11:02:35 AM (No. 1705830)
Where do I volunteer to help?
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cartcart 4/25/2024 11:10:22 AM (No. 1705834)
It might be good to stop the abortion industry..
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Dodge Boy 4/25/2024 11:45:22 AM (No. 1705855)
Not surprising. You have to wonder why any parent would want to raise children in today's violent and chaotic world.
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DVC 4/25/2024 11:47:44 AM (No. 1705857)
One of my nieces just delivered her fifth child, a beautiful boy. Not everyone is doing this, and thank goodness that some of the really rotten people leftists are having few children and some of the good, sane Christian people are having plenty.
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There is a paper by Madritsch in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics dated 3 November 2023 that shows a significant problem in over 60% of the IVF samples tested!
In my opinion, this could be related to the covid vaccine taken by these women.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/25/2024 12:18:11 PM (No. 1705900)
Never married. Never had any children. It's all about choices.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/25/2024 12:31:03 PM (No. 1705914)
No problem as it stands today, Biden and the leftist and progressive Democrats have an answer to the low American fertility rate, by replacing all those non created and aborted American parented “would be” American children with illegal alien children. Who Biden and the leftist and progressive Democrats are clearly encouraging and inviting to be trafficked across the border and into the USA in unlimited numbers, and who the the leftist and progressive Democrats will no doubt claim are all members of minority groups, that the Democrats believe will be very favorable in the decades and years ahead to the leftist and progressive Democrat political agenda.
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DVC 4/25/2024 12:40:16 PM (No. 1705920)
Re #7, and birth control pills taken by so many, too. And the harsh reality is that peak reproductive years for women are in their middle teens to middle 20s, and after that, huge percentages have difficulty.
Our society has women 'putting off' their plans for children as their fertile years slip away.
In the old days, a century ago, women were often married by 18 and had multiple children by middle 20s. And now far too many choose to wait until early thirties to start and find that they can't.
Lots of this is put one 'feminism' telling women that they need a career more than anything else.
That niece who had her fifth child....decided to drop out of the US Naval Academy in her first year to get married. She chose to be a mother to five instead of a USN officer like so many others in her family have chosen over the decades. I am so glad that she did. and she married a USNA grad who is now a USMC officer.
Sometimes we find that the old ways were the better ways.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/25/2024 1:44:03 PM (No. 1705949)
As long as we have a sufficient work force to sustain my SS, I don't care.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 4/25/2024 2:43:01 PM (No. 1705983)
There are a variety of reasons for the low birth rate. The cost is probably the main reason. That, and the mindset of young people today which view having and raising a child as an inconvenience. It gets in the way of their leisure time. However, this is not just a U.S. problem. This is an issue all over the world.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/25/2024 3:51:44 PM (No. 1706013)
STEM majors find a nice English major and start having babies. Then support them. No gender studies majors need apply.
Save up for a house. It'll be nice, I promise.
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