This is a disaster.
And this was during a quarantine year. What the heck were the rest of you doing. Guys, Netflix and chill is not supposed to be about Netflix. I thought y’all knew that.
U.S. women had 3.61 million babies in 2020, down 4% from 2019; fewest since 1979. And now the number of babies a woman will have over her lifetime fell to 1.64. That means every couple now has 1.64 children.
U.S. women had 3.61 million babies in 2020, down 4% from 2019; fewest since 1979. Fertility rate—average number of babies a woman will have over her lifetime—fell to 1.64, lowest since government began tracking it in 1930s https://t.co/lJzP0RMdaa via @WSJ pic.twitter.com/exCw3BQC0w
— David Wessel (@davidmwessel) May 5, 2021
I can’t help but think our turning away from our Christian faith as a country leads to this. We no longer have faith in God, faith in our country, faith in ourselves.
This is also a socioeconomic tragedy in that we keep borrowing from the next generation and then refuse to have a next generation. This is how we lead to bankruptcy.
The only thing that can save this country is returning to Christ.
May 5, 2021 at 12:20 pm
Dawkins wondered why religion didn’t die out in _The God Delusion_. He didn’t understand the phenomenon. It’s because religious people are generally more hopeful and, therefore, have more children.
Ideas have consequences. (Some people still don’t believe this.)
May 5, 2021 at 2:54 pm
“every couple now has 1.64 children” Not true. This number is per woman, not per couple. There are many women who do not make part of a couple, probably this number increasing. The average couple, therefore, has significantly more.
May 5, 2021 at 4:43 pm
We have more babies and then we send them to leftist indoctrination camps.
May 5, 2021 at 4:58 pm
That is a ‘uge problem. I’m trying to inoculate my offspring by teaching them about God, abortion, marriage, communism (read Communist Manifesto and Dr. Kengor info), and critical theory before they leave the nest. Also, limit screen big time.
My oldest is also working during HS so he learns about taxes and reputation/work ethic. He loves Steven Crowder and Babylon Bee: did I go too far?
May 6, 2021 at 7:10 am
Sounds like you’re hitting the target to me.
May 6, 2021 at 8:57 pm
The leftist don’t need to have babies. We who oppose them are in effect their incubators. They take our children and make them ideological clones of themselves. They are in total control of the educational system, from kindergarten through college. Unless this is successfully addressed, expect continued disaster. Bet you can’t name your school board members, but probably know the football teams record. I plead guilty myself (except for the football record).
May 10, 2021 at 12:22 pm
#facts
May 6, 2021 at 10:06 am
when value is given to having two working parents (taxes, government mandates, inflation due to over spending by our government for example) and a push to increase GDP by women working… no wonder we have a problem… one of many other problems.