US May Birth Dirth

[JimBowie1958]

You fuckers need to get crackin'!

Baby Bust: 2015 had lowest U.S. fertility rate ever, down 600,000 births


A new study from the University of New Hampshire put the gap at 3.4 million births since 2008.

And 2015 witnessed the lowest fertility rate on record and a gap of 600,000 births.

 

[Blackrook]

It's the death of everything. Anyone who reads science fiction or fantasy knows that every civilization eventually peaks out and dies. Our descendents will wander, hunting and gathering, in the ruins of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Detroit is already in ruins, and our bridges and roads are crumbling. We have exhausted ourselves on stupid wars and wasteful social programs. Our government and our citizens have wracked up a ruinous debt that can never be repaid. The unfunded liabilities of pensions alone are in the countless trillions. Our leaders betrayed us, and the people foolishly ignored what was happening until it was too late. Trump will not save us, he will be the last smashing blow that finally breaks us.

 

[JimBowie1958]

It's the death of everything. Anyone who reads science fiction or fantasy knows that every civilization eventually peaks out and dies. Our descendents will wander, hunting and gathering, in the ruins of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Detroit is already in ruins, and our bridges and roads are crumbling. We have exhausted ourselves on stupid wars and wasteful social programs. Our government and our citizens have wracked up a ruinous debt that can never be repaid. The unfunded liabilities of pensions alone are in the countless trillions. Our leaders betrayed us, and the people foolishly ignored what was happening until it was too late. Trump will not save us, he will be the last smashing blow that finally breaks us.

So why hasnt this fate befallen China?

Why has Russia revived demographically?

 

[Blackrook]

It's the death of everything. Anyone who reads science fiction or fantasy knows that every civilization eventually peaks out and dies. Our descendents will wander, hunting and gathering, in the ruins of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Detroit is already in ruins, and our bridges and roads are crumbling. We have exhausted ourselves on stupid wars and wasteful social programs. Our government and our citizens have wracked up a ruinous debt that can never be repaid. The unfunded liabilities of pensions alone are in the countless trillions. Our leaders betrayed us, and the people foolishly ignored what was happening until it was too late. Trump will not save us, he will be the last smashing blow that finally breaks us.

So why hasnt this fate befallen China?

Why has Russia revived demographically?

Shrinking China: A Demographic Crisis

Drunken Nation: Russia’s Depopulation Bomb

 

[JimBowie1958]

It's the death of everything. Anyone who reads science fiction or fantasy knows that every civilization eventually peaks out and dies. Our descendents will wander, hunting and gathering, in the ruins of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Detroit is already in ruins, and our bridges and roads are crumbling. We have exhausted ourselves on stupid wars and wasteful social programs. Our government and our citizens have wracked up a ruinous debt that can never be repaid. The unfunded liabilities of pensions alone are in the countless trillions. Our leaders betrayed us, and the people foolishly ignored what was happening until it was too late. Trump will not save us, he will be the last smashing blow that finally breaks us.

So why hasnt this fate befallen China?

Why has Russia revived demographically?

Shrinking China: A Demographic Crisis

Drunken Nation: Russia’s Depopulation Bomb

Yeah, China's depopulation is the result of government coersion, not the voluntary choice of its people, and it still ahs a vibrant economy and military as well.

Russia's demographic decline has been reversed largely by shutting down abortions after the first trimester.
Russia Reverses Birth Decline – but for How Long? | News
Yet last year, long before the events in Crimea, Russia recorded its first year of natural population growth since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, with the number of births exceeding the number of deaths by 24,013. The trend continued through the beginning of this year, according to data released by the State Statistics Service at the end of May. ...

All major negative demographic trends — including alcohol poisoning deaths, murder and suicide — have been receding in Russia in the last five years, with life expectancy reaching an all-time high of 71 years in 2013, according to the Health Ministry, up from 67 in 2007. Russia's birth rate of 1.7 children per woman surpassed the European Union's average of 1.6 in 2012....

Anatoly Vishnevsky, director of the Demography Institute at the Higher School of Economics, warned that Russia's recent population growth is not sustainable, as the next few generations of potential mothers will be those born after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when fewer children were already being born.

"In 2019 there will only be 12.9 million women of the most active maternity age of between 20 to 35, while in 2013 there were 17.2 million, so of course there will be fewer children in the future," he said in emailed comments.

Russia's economy collapsed after the breakup of the Soviet Union, which had a devastating effect on the birth rate as families struggled to make ends meet.

But the government could offset the decrease in the number of women of child-bearing age by introducing more measures to encourage them to have children, said Andrei Korotayev, chief researcher at the Laboratory of Political Demography at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

"The birth rate in Russia began to grow after the government introduced financial incentives for mothers in 2007," he said in a telephone interview.

"This was an unequivocal success, but in order to face new challenges in the future, we will have to introduce even more effective measures," he said.

Russian families are entitled to a certificate for 429,408 rubles ($12,500) after the birth or adoption of a second child. The money can be put toward buying real estate or toward the child's education, or be deposited into the mother's pension account. The Finance Ministry considered scrapping the incentives in 2013, but backed off after widespread opposition among experts and the general public.

Abortion in Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During the 2000s, Russia's steadily falling population (due to both negative birthrates and low life expectancy) became a major source of concern, even forcing the military to curtail conscription due to shortages of young males. On 21 October 2011, the Russian Parliament passed a law restricting abortion to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, with an exception up to 22 weeks if the pregnancy was the result of rape, and for medical necessity it can be performed at any point during pregnancy.[1] The new law also made mandatory a waiting period of two to seven days before an abortion can be performed, to allow the woman to "reconsider her decision".[1] Abortion can only be performed in licensed institutions (typically hospitals or women’s clinics) and by physicians who have specialized training. The physician can refuse to perform the abortion, except the abortions for medical necessity....In 2005, 1.6 million abortions were registered in Russia;[4] 20% of these involved girls under the age of 18.[33] Official statistics put the number at 989,000 in 2011


I think these laws should be emulated here in the USA.

 

[Blackrook]

1.6 million abortions per year is an insanely high number of abortions. The only way the Russians can save themselves now is to outlaw abortion completely. Otherwise, the country will be empty of people in 50 years.

 

[Likkmee]

Yeah? YEAH ? Futt Choo. Look at what the great Lance Armstrong accomplished to show the world what Duh_murrik...............OH. Nevermind.

 

[waltky]

Not as many babies bein' born...

CDC: U.S. birth rate hit 30-year low in 2017
May 17, 2018 -- The birth rate for nearly every group of women in the United States fell to a 30-year low in 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

U.S. women in their teens, twenties and thirties had fewer babies last year than in any year since 1987, the statistical report said. Data based on more than 99 percent of U.S. birth certificates counted 3.853 million births last year, about 92,000 fewer than 2016.

The birth rates for nearly every group of U.S. women fell in 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report Thursday.​

The CDC said the general fertility rate also fell to a record low of 60 births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 -- a 3 percent drop. Births for women in their twenties was down 4 percent; slightly down for women in their thirties; 2 percent down for women 30-34 and 1 percent for women 35-39.

The number of teens giving birth fell 7 percent in 2017, continuing a trend since the early 1990s. The report showed women in their early 40s were the only group with a higher birth rate last year, up 2 percent. Pre-term babies and low birth weights dropped for the third straight year, and Cesarean deliveries rose slightly.

CDC: U.S. birth rate hit 30-year low in 2017

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US Births Hit a 30-Year Low, Despite Good Economy
May 17, 2018 — U.S. birth rates declined last year for women in their teens, 20s and — surprisingly — their 30s, leading to the fewest babies in 30 years, according to a government report released Thursday.

Experts said several factors may be combining to drive the declines, including shifting attitudes about motherhood and changing immigration patterns. The provisional report, based on a review of more than 99 percent of the birth certificates filed nationwide, counted 3.853 million births last year. That’s the lowest tally since 1987.

Newborn babies fill the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York, Feb. 16, 2017. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released May 17, 2018, 2017 saw the lowest number of U.S. births in 30 years.​

Births have been declining since 2014, but 2017 saw the greatest year-to-year drop, about 92,000 less than the previous year. That was surprising, because baby booms often parallel economic booms, and last year was a period of low unemployment and a growing economy.

What's causing this?

But other factors are likely at play, experts said. One may be shifting attitudes about motherhood among millennials, who are in their prime child-bearing years right now. They may be more inclined to put off child-bearing or have fewer children, researchers said.

Another may be changes in the immigrant population, who generate nearly a quarter of the babies born in the U.S. each year. For example, Asians are making up a larger proportion of immigrants, and they have typically had fewer children than other immigrant groups. Also, use of IUDs and other long-acting forms of contraception has been increasing.

Other findings

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Feminism and more women choosing careers. The decline really started in the 1960’s.
Sad part is that feminist women think they’re above nature but still feel that clock ticking. As a result, career women get pregnant later in life and the result has been a 30% increase in Down’s syndrome babies between the 70’s and the 2000’s.
Data and Statistics | Down Syndrome | Birth Defects | NCBDDD | CDC