re: US fertility rates at an all-time low

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I lived in lower income neighborhood for 2-3 years after college.

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Lower income doesn't necessarily mean it's unsafe, but 9/10 times there's violent crimes being committed, and I and most others don't blame anyone that doesn't want to move into an unsafe neighborhood in America if they want to live within a 45 minute drive of their place of employment and that's all they can afford.

I guarantee you that I'm far from alone here as 95% of responsible, educated couples looking to have children will wait until they can afford a home in a better neighborhood or not have children at all, before moving to an unsafe one, hence the decline in fertility rates.

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Then we moved to a home we bought that was 20 years old lol.

Nowadays kids don’t do this.

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They do. We bought a 1200 sq/ft, 2 bed 1 bath house in a good neighborhood in Baton Rouge, and that was still almost $300k for city that's on the lower end of the income scale. We're a good bit above median income and we're still going to either need to move or spend a lot of money on an addition in order to expand our family, not to mention paying for a safe school experience as well once they reach that age (this coming from someone who rode the bus to a public school every day).

Also, housing of this type in a safe location is of very limited quantity. We spent 9 months looking for this type of home, and only were able to buy ours because we found it before it ever hit the market.



This is all about fertility RATES, and these are all of the legitimate and valid reasons why young people are having children at a lower rate than the prior generations - who could much more easily afford safe housing within employment centers on a single income.

That’s the gameplan and as long as your counties blueprint includes them their blueprint will play out to perfection.

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I’m simply saying I have seen many share rent and work for a couple of years just to turn around and buy homes for themselves.

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Every single person I know had a roommate in their 20s at some point. I am sure zoomers are doing the same. Single bedroom rentals are pretty uneconomical

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Every single person I know had a roommate in their 20s at some point. I am sure zoomers are doing the same. Single bedroom rentals are pretty uneconomical

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I’d like to see that data for this generation because I simply don’t believe they are trying. I believe they are trying to live on their own and thus failing because of costs. Again, everyone is selfish.

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Feminism, cost of raising children, and abortion rates are the biggest reasons, imo.

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An educated female populace, birth control and abortion.

If you want a better fertility rate stop educating women and take away control of their reproductive systems.

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So, you don’t believe you should do anything to help your fellow man?

Not even those who are clearly deranged or psychotic?

Not even children who will harm themselves?

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The problem is who decides what is deranged or psychotic and then the slippery slope of government getting involved with curtailing freedom to dictate "correct" choices.

I personally think religions like Jehovah's Witnesses are pretty deranged and psychotic with the way they indoctrinate their children and threaten total shunning.

However, I'm not sure what to do about it aside from treat them by the golden rule and maybe give my opinion if asked since I don't want to risk creating a dictatorship that chooses a correct religion.

Jab working as designed

Uh oh.

Does this mean that SS will be in trouble in 20-25 years? At least technology can pick up the slack for a diminished work force, but will AI contribute to SS?

It’s not all by choice. Seems I know more couples who want kids and can’t get pregnant than ones who successfully had kids.

There’s a major fertility issue out there right now