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And that’s basically it!
And guess who the fathers to those teen pregnancies are? It’s men over 20. Adding a layer of ick to what he’s lamenting.
Matt Gatez says 'I'm doing my part'
Exactly, half of me expects them to spin this into, "Trump and Epstein were just trying to fix the population crisis." Give it a week.
I wonder how much breaking up the trump-epstein ring lowered the fertility rate of 15-19 year olds.
They want every woman to be a Michelle Duggar - get married as a minor, start popping them out ASAP, and keep the Xerox machine running until someone dies.
Interestingly, Canada, which has free health care has a lower birth rate than the U.S. where births can cost between $3000 and $70 000.
Getting the child born is the cheap part, getting them to grow up is the real money sink.
And Canada is not exactly the cheapest place to live either
lots of child care support in Nordic countries and still low birthrates.
If women have a choice i.e they can self support (work) if needs be and not be gas lit, they'll mostly choose 0,1 or 2. That's not enough to grow a population. That and contraception that separates sex from birth.
Look to Hungary, no incone taxes and all sorts of benefits and still a low birthrate. I can see them changing the law to punish women (financially) who don't but they're in the EU so they can say fuck u and move :)
I'm a guy but it makes sense to me, why would a woman do years of study want to be mostly birthing kids every other year for a decade or more ? career, travel, saving and investing etc are much harder if you have a quiver full, let alone the impact on your body, so we're back to 0, 1 or 2 and a declining demographic.
For every woman who decides on 0, you need another woman to decide to have 5 to basically stand still in terms of demographics, and the only ones doing that are religious nutters.
even if the financial cost is covered, time cost is still a thing.
Pretty much if you want educated people to make more children you have to abolish work or have a more dystopian system of separation of child and family where all children are taken care of in a professional facility full time.
Fixing the birthrate is pretty simple in theory. The government needs to meet the needs of people having kids. The details are a little more complicated.
In order to have more kids in their 20's people need:
A higher income in their 20's. If they work full time they deserve to be able to afford a 3 bedroom place, food, etc..
A place to live - Build affordable housing that people can own and build a life. These need to be 3-4 bedroom places that one income can cover.
Medical care: free quality medical care to cover little things like birth cost and the doctor visits a child needs.
Time: Hard to make babies when you are working 60+ hours a week. Mandatory 40 or less work week. 2 months of vacation every year.
Childcare - Free or heavily subsidized childcare for working parents. Currently childcare for 2 children is more than the net average income for one person in many areas. Earlier retirement programs are also highly effective.
Quality schools and education: ban private schools, invest heavily in public schools increasing teacher wages and requirements, reducing classroom sizes, and providing quality educational material. Free college and trade schooling as well.
Hope: Stop fucking up the planet for temporary gains. If we started to reverse our environmental damaging behaviors more people would be willing to have kids
When standards of living rise, birthrates drop.
Western countries, japan & korea all have low birthrates and all developed them as av. income rose. China too but one-child made it a less clear example. Even within a society, middle and upper classes have smaller families than the working class.
Declining birthrates can't be fixed by improving living standards, but that's fine because low birthrate is a good thing - a sign of a society doing well.
If a high income/low birthrate society needs more citizens, immigration from low income/high birthrate areas is the only viable option. Endless expansion is a fools errand anyway.
Ayo Kim wexler
COSTS ARE TOO HIGH, THE FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK, AND NOBODY WHO CAN FIX THOSE THINGS SEEMS TO GIVE A SHIT.
Go ahead and spend a bunch of money on analysts, though. Ignore the root causes. We’re used to it.
Good!
Considering the average age of father's for teen pregnancy, It can keep dropping
I feel like we're in the upside down....