Why Americans are having fewer babies

[centerleftFL]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

I don't think men are bringing their A (or B game) anymore. They have become more awkward in social skills, all too many either passive or belligerent or aggressive. They're married to their devices--which includes around the clock PORN (who needs real sex?) Many are content to live in their parents basements or extra bedroom.

These young men had mothers who worked yet still managed to do it all including 'take care' of them and watched fathers either walk out and who never came close to pulling their fair share in parental or home duties. All too many young men have become mentally and even physically slothy and are becoming far LESS EDUCATED THAN WOMEN with each passing decade. They are not pitching in at the 50% rate young women have every right to expect. Why would young women want them?

If women want babies, they can do it on their own they can have them by several means. If that is too much to take on, it's their CHOICE to say no, not for me.

I've been been watching this play out for about 20 years. I've never said a word about it till this very post.

 

[centerleftFL]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

Do we need people to be having babies? People want to enjoy their life, we can do this AND the population of the world keeps increasing.

Good point.

I'm not personally arguing for reproduction or against it. I found the article interesting, and the dynamic these days of doing 'other things' instead of having a family is interesting, if not kind of tragicomic--in a grand scheme of things sort of way. Indeed the world is ever changing, moving forward and less familiar than last generation.

Your point then is let the new generation do their thing?

Unless you return women to a position of legal CHATTEL, there's not a damn thing you can do about it. It's their choice. And make no mistake, until and unless you take their vote away, they will not go back!

I keep hearing about a TV series called the Hand Maid's Tale. It's related to this. I might have to watch it.

 

[centerleftFL]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

Do we need people to be having babies? People want to enjoy their life, we can do this AND the population of the world keeps increasing.

Yes, actually, each culture MUST continue to 'make' people UNLESS they come to terms culturally and economically that they will cease to exist.

 

[Lysistrata]

The potency of male sperm has dropped fifty percent since the late 1950's.......water fluoridation, GMO foods (that are proven to cause cancer and sterility in mice). Pesticides, insecticides, vaccines. Syngenta's product Atrazine (that is sprayed on 50 percent of all corn crops causes gender confusion and deformed genitalia in amphibians. Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a FB friend of mine did the study and they tried to bully him into shutting up about it. Birth control for the women, screwed up menstrual cycles for those that use diaphragms but all of the sudden want to get pregnant. Economic reasons which is why 97 percent of all abortions are performed because having a child at that time is not a convenient time.

Of course the third world shitholers never got the memo about birth control or abstaining, don't believe in vaccines, don't have access to fluoridated water and GMO foods so they have been chosen to fill the void created by those here that do not have children ...of course they are disease ridden but their women are fertile and the invasion doesn't require a gun...they simply aim the uteruses of their women at us. It's not a eloquent picture I painted but it is the truth.

They didn't "get the memo" about birth control because it was never sent. Remember that it has been the so-called "conservatives" who have refused every effort to have the United States participate in bringing this information, and accompanying access to the necessary technology to the less developed nations.

The whole "abstinence" thing is a joke. Do you honestly think that guys across the world will accept their wives' declaration that there cannot be any sex for a few years? While some of the more stupid men make condescending comments suggesting that women be abstinent, are men seriously going to get on board with the abstinence movement?

If you do, I've got a bridge that I can sell you real cheap. It's in Brooklyn.

 

[Dale Smith]

The potency of male sperm has dropped fifty percent since the late 1950's.......water fluoridation, GMO foods (that are proven to cause cancer and sterility in mice). Pesticides, insecticides, vaccines. Syngenta's product Atrazine (that is sprayed on 50 percent of all corn crops causes gender confusion and deformed genitalia in amphibians. Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a FB friend of mine did the study and they tried to bully him into shutting up about it. Birth control for the women, screwed up menstrual cycles for those that use diaphragms but all of the sudden want to get pregnant. Economic reasons which is why 97 percent of all abortions are performed because having a child at that time is not a convenient time.

Of course the third world shitholers never got the memo about birth control or abstaining, don't believe in vaccines, don't have access to fluoridated water and GMO foods so they have been chosen to fill the void created by those here that do not have children ...of course they are disease ridden but their women are fertile and the invasion doesn't require a gun...they simply aim the uteruses of their women at us. It's not a eloquent picture I painted but it is the truth.

They didn't "get the memo" about birth control because it was never sent. Remember that it has been the so-called "conservatives" who have refused every effort to have the United States participate in bringing this information, and accompanying access to the necessary technology to the less developed nations.

The whole "abstinence" thing is a joke. Do you honestly think that guys across the world will accept their wives' declaration that there cannot be any sex for a few years? While some of the more stupid men make condescending comments suggesting that women be abstinent, are men seriously going to get on board with the abstinence movement?

If you do, I've got a bridge that I can sell you real cheap. It's in Brooklyn.

Hey, dipshit, they are not in third world countries now...they have invaded here and Europe where birth control is easily available. Why do asswipes like yourself always attempt to make every fucking thing a political issue? Neither political party is worth a shit...but keep on waving that rainbow colored flag.

 

[Lysistrata]

The potency of male sperm has dropped fifty percent since the late 1950's.......water fluoridation, GMO foods (that are proven to cause cancer and sterility in mice). Pesticides, insecticides, vaccines. Syngenta's product Atrazine (that is sprayed on 50 percent of all corn crops causes gender confusion and deformed genitalia in amphibians. Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a FB friend of mine did the study and they tried to bully him into shutting up about it. Birth control for the women, screwed up menstrual cycles for those that use diaphragms but all of the sudden want to get pregnant. Economic reasons which is why 97 percent of all abortions are performed because having a child at that time is not a convenient time.

Of course the third world shitholers never got the memo about birth control or abstaining, don't believe in vaccines, don't have access to fluoridated water and GMO foods so they have been chosen to fill the void created by those here that do not have children ...of course they are disease ridden but their women are fertile and the invasion doesn't require a gun...they simply aim the uteruses of their women at us. It's not a eloquent picture I painted but it is the truth.

They didn't "get the memo" about birth control because it was never sent. Remember that it has been the so-called "conservatives" who have refused every effort to have the United States participate in bringing this information, and accompanying access to the necessary technology to the less developed nations.

The whole "abstinence" thing is a joke. Do you honestly think that guys across the world will accept their wives' declaration that there cannot be any sex for a few years? While some of the more stupid men make condescending comments suggesting that women be abstinent, are men seriously going to get on board with the abstinence movement?

If you do, I've got a bridge that I can sell you real cheap. It's in Brooklyn.

Hey, dipshit, they are not in third world countries now...they have invaded here and Europe where birth control is easily available. Why do asswipes like yourself always attempt to make every fucking thing a political issue? Neither political party is worth a shit...but keep on waving that rainbow colored flag.

Hey, lardass. Care to explain why the radical right is always trying to limit access to birth control and attacking PP? It has been the bone-headed "conservatives" who are responsible for doing this. They have been the monkeys who have made sex and reproduction a political issue. From Comstock to the present.

Anthony Comstock's "Chastity" Laws | American Experience | PBS

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Why are people so ignorant of the fact that women haven't wanted a good deal of the pregnancies they have endured. Unwanted pregnancy has been a major problem throughout history. Ancient societies like the Egyptians had their ways of trying to deal with it. It is said that Casanova's ladies used half of a lemon.

Just what is this obsession that "conservatives" have about sex anyway? Don't these monkeys realize that they wouldn't be here if daddy didn't do "it" with mommy? But most men and women like to get some practice in.

 

[impuretrash]

Public education and popular culture has done a real number on GenX and Millennial attitudes towards sex and procreation. Girls are taught that promiscuity is empowering and it's ok to sleep around so long as you use protection because having a baby will ruin your life. Boys are taught that they're basically irrelevant especially when it comes to raising kids, that they're just bumbling idiots and potential rapists who have no parental rights and will lose everything if and when his wife/girlfriend gets tired of him and end up slaving away to pay child support for 18 years for kids they're not even allowed to see while a revolving door of random dudes raises them.

 

[centerleftFL]

The potency of male sperm has dropped fifty percent since the late 1950's.......water fluoridation, GMO foods (that are proven to cause cancer and sterility in mice). Pesticides, insecticides, vaccines. Syngenta's product Atrazine (that is sprayed on 50 percent of all corn crops causes gender confusion and deformed genitalia in amphibians. Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a FB friend of mine did the study and they tried to bully him into shutting up about it. Birth control for the women, screwed up menstrual cycles for those that use diaphragms but all of the sudden want to get pregnant. Economic reasons which is why 97 percent of all abortions are performed because having a child at that time is not a convenient time.

Of course the third world shitholers never got the memo about birth control or abstaining, don't believe in vaccines, don't have access to fluoridated water and GMO foods so they have been chosen to fill the void created by those here that do not have children ...of course they are disease ridden but their women are fertile and the invasion doesn't require a gun...they simply aim the uteruses of their women at us. It's not a eloquent picture I painted but it is the truth.

They didn't "get the memo" about birth control because it was never sent. Remember that it has been the so-called "conservatives" who have refused every effort to have the United States participate in bringing this information, and accompanying access to the necessary technology to the less developed nations.

The whole "abstinence" thing is a joke. Do you honestly think that guys across the world will accept their wives' declaration that there cannot be any sex for a few years? While some of the more stupid men make condescending comments suggesting that women be abstinent, are men seriously going to get on board with the abstinence movement?

If you do, I've got a bridge that I can sell you real cheap. It's in Brooklyn.

Hey, dipshit, they are not in third world countries now...they have invaded here and Europe where birth control is easily available. Why do asswipes like yourself always attempt to make every fucking thing a political issue? Neither political party is worth a shit...but keep on waving that rainbow colored flag.

Hey, lardass. Care to explain why the radical right is always trying to limit access to birth control and attacking PP? It has been the bone-headed "conservatives" who are responsible for doing this. They have been the monkeys who have made sex and reproduction a political issue. From Comstock to the present.

Anthony Comstock's "Chastity" Laws | American Experience | PBS

{{meta.pageTitle}}

Why are people so ignorant of the fact that women haven't wanted a good deal of the pregnancies they have endured. Unwanted pregnancy has been a major problem throughout history. Ancient societies like the Egyptians had their ways of trying to deal with it. It is said that Casanova's ladies used half of a lemon.

Just what is this obsession that "conservatives" have about sex anyway? Don't these monkeys realize that they wouldn't be here if daddy didn't do "it" with mommy? But most men and women like to get some practice in.

You got it! Actually, DEMS were involved in all the sexual restrictive bullshit for several decades too BUT make no mistake, by 74 Republicans went retrograde. (I had to laugh that I was 40 before I realized how many times 'we' BROKE THE LAW in Florida. Until about 1986, it was illegal for a WOMAN to "be on top" in Florida. So if the woman was the one breaking the law and not the guy, I have no idea! It's Florida, it was probably ONLY the woman).

 

[MindWars]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

Do we need people to be having babies? People want to enjoy their life, we can do this AND the population of the world keeps increasing.

The population isn't increasing dumbass that's another leftist guilt trip to rip you of more money because they talk stupid ssses like yoursefl into " GOING GREEN" which the chian of company commands make billions off selling dumbasses like yourself the sales pitch " save the earth"......

That's not say we don't have issues....... but your parental gov. that you love so much knows how to work those weak non thinjing minds".

 

[MindWars]

They aren' thaving babies because it has been SOCIALLY ENGINEERED that way it's all in plain view :

1. gays = no babies
2. Trans. = no babies
3. twenty something brainwashed into no babies because they give ugly stomachs, or stretches them out yes this is the indoctrination being gtaught to your liberal idiots.
4, brainwased " over population". they've been telling their idiots that for the past twent years , most leftist idiots just can't seem to wrap their retard heads around what it means to " depopulate the earth" an dthe methods used to do it.

There's a lot more going on that does us in, but most lunatics who fall into the lower IQ ranks can't seem to figure ANY OF IT OUT when it's right in front of you dumbasses. ......

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

People had larger families before the birth control pill. Women became mothers at an earlier age.

 

[night_son]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

Do we need people to be having babies? People want to enjoy their life, we can do this AND the population of the world keeps increasing.

Good point.

I'm not personally arguing for reproduction or against it. I found the article interesting, and the dynamic these days of doing 'other things' instead of having a family is interesting, if not kind of tragicomic--in a grand scheme of things sort of way. Indeed the world is ever changing, moving forward and less familiar than last generation.

Your point then is let the new generation do their thing?

Unless you return women to a position of legal CHATTEL, there's not a damn thing you can do about it. It's their choice. And make no mistake, until and unless you take their vote away, they will not go back!

I keep hearing about a TV series called the Hand Maid's Tale. It's related to this. I might have to watch it.

The Handmaid's Tale is also a book by Margaret Atwood. Worth a read.

No one I know is advocating for the above.

 

[MindWars]

Engineered plan

Manipulate the whites to have less babies
push the gays and transgenders
chemicals causing lesser bith rates
Socially manipulating parenting via public edcuation , " fk away, and abort anytime just like it's a candy wrapper" .....


AND THE IDIOTS OF SOCIETY CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN, ........
BRAIN DEADS CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THE TAKING DOWN THE WEST TIES INTO ALL OF THIS......

Connecting the dots is hard for the liberal mind to succeed in.

 

[Lysistrata]

Public education and popular culture has done a real number on GenX and Millennial attitudes towards sex and procreation. Girls are taught that promiscuity is empowering and it's ok to sleep around so long as you use protection because having a baby will ruin your life. Boys are taught that they're basically irrelevant especially when it comes to raising kids, that they're just bumbling idiots and potential rapists who have no parental rights and will lose everything if and when his wife/girlfriend gets tired of him and end up slaving away to pay child support for 18 years for kids they're not even allowed to see while a revolving door of random dudes raises them.

Like boys have not been taught that "promiscuity is empowering" for, say, centuries? That there were two types of women, one you married and the others you fool around with, even running the risk of bringing an STD home with you? I went to a Catholic college decades ago and it's amazing how many of those "holy" boys tried to bed anyone they could and then brag about it to their friends. Ever heard of the expression "sowing [one's] wild oats"?

I think that you guys are just experiencing sour grapes because women can now enjoy the same lifestyle that men always have. Whether this lifestyle is good, bad, or indifferent is another question altogether.

Having a baby at the wrong time will ruin a person's life.

I've known several men, including my late Father (RIP) who raised children with care and concern and were faithful to their wives. How can you ignore all of the reports of guys who were kicked out for cheating on their wives/girlfriends, who abandoned their children, or broke up their families by violence? The non-custodial parent most of the time has visiting rights unless he or she has really, really screwed up.

 

[impuretrash]

Public education and popular culture has done a real number on GenX and Millennial attitudes towards sex and procreation. Girls are taught that promiscuity is empowering and it's ok to sleep around so long as you use protection because having a baby will ruin your life. Boys are taught that they're basically irrelevant especially when it comes to raising kids, that they're just bumbling idiots and potential rapists who have no parental rights and will lose everything if and when his wife/girlfriend gets tired of him and end up slaving away to pay child support for 18 years for kids they're not even allowed to see while a revolving door of random dudes raises them.

Like boys have not been taught that "promiscuity is empowering" for, say, centuries? That there were two types of women, one you married and the others you fool around with, even running the risk of bringing an STD home with you? I went to a Catholic college decades ago and it's amazing how many of those "holy" boys tried to bed anyone they could and then brag about it to their friends. Ever heard of the expression "sowing [one's] wild oats"?

I think that you guys are just experiencing sour grapes because women can now enjoy the same lifestyle that men always have. Whether this lifestyle is good, bad, or indifferent is another question altogether.

Having a baby at the wrong time will ruin a person's life.

I've known several men, including my late Father (RIP) who raised children with care and concern and were faithful to their wives. How can you ignore all of the reports of guys who were kicked out for cheating on their wives/girlfriends, who abandoned their children, or broke up their families by violence? The non-custodial parent most of the time has visiting rights unless he or she has really, really screwed up.

I don't think it's ok when men whore around either, going around exploiting women and treating them like shit.

 

[Lysistrata]

Public education and popular culture has done a real number on GenX and Millennial attitudes towards sex and procreation. Girls are taught that promiscuity is empowering and it's ok to sleep around so long as you use protection because having a baby will ruin your life. Boys are taught that they're basically irrelevant especially when it comes to raising kids, that they're just bumbling idiots and potential rapists who have no parental rights and will lose everything if and when his wife/girlfriend gets tired of him and end up slaving away to pay child support for 18 years for kids they're not even allowed to see while a revolving door of random dudes raises them.

Like boys have not been taught that "promiscuity is empowering" for, say, centuries? That there were two types of women, one you married and the others you fool around with, even running the risk of bringing an STD home with you? I went to a Catholic college decades ago and it's amazing how many of those "holy" boys tried to bed anyone they could and then brag about it to their friends. Ever heard of the expression "sowing [one's] wild oats"?

I think that you guys are just experiencing sour grapes because women can now enjoy the same lifestyle that men always have. Whether this lifestyle is good, bad, or indifferent is another question altogether.

Having a baby at the wrong time will ruin a person's life.

I've known several men, including my late Father (RIP) who raised children with care and concern and were faithful to their wives. How can you ignore all of the reports of guys who were kicked out for cheating on their wives/girlfriends, who abandoned their children, or broke up their families by violence? The non-custodial parent most of the time has visiting rights unless he or she has really, really screwed up.

I don't think it's ok when men whore around either, going around exploiting women and treating them like shit.

I just think that society, our religions, our nation, and many nations have ignored the "morality" question; i.e. whether or not such activity is "bad," whether it pisses off the Supreme Being, and whether said being sends one to a place called "hell" because of it, in which case "hell" must be a very large place with all of those millions of souls in it.

The so-called "double standard," in which men judge women negatively, and call women vile names for the same behavior that they themselves indulge in, which has never been taken on by the "powers that be," is a different thing, involving only the male ego. Because of the physical differences between males and females, there is no bloody sheet that can be displayed in more primitive cultures by the bride to prove that her husband was a virgin prior to the wedding night. Men do not necessarily wear white to their weddings to signify their "purity."

 

[impuretrash]

I just think that society, our religions, our nation, and many nations have ignored the "morality" question; i.e. whether or not such activity is "bad," whether it pisses off the Supreme Being, and whether said being sends one to a place called "hell" because of it, in which case "hell" must be a very large place with all of those millions of souls in it.

The so-called "double standard," in which men judge women negatively, and call women vile names for the same behavior that they themselves indulge in, which has never been taken on by the "powers that be," is a different thing, involving only the male ego. Because of the physical differences between males and females, there is no bloody sheet that can be displayed in more primitive cultures by the bride to prove that her husband was a virgin prior to the wedding night. Men do not necessarily wear white to their weddings to signify their "purity."

I completely agree with you and I wish there was more focus on establishing an emotional bond before getting physical but it's really hard to put that particular genie back in the bottle. Nowadays there's a lot of resentment and distrust between both sexes and it's a real shame because true love is better than sex, but it's something most people will never find because they're too busy screwing around.

 

[Lysistrata]

I just think that society, our religions, our nation, and many nations have ignored the "morality" question; i.e. whether or not such activity is "bad," whether it pisses off the Supreme Being, and whether said being sends one to a place called "hell" because of it, in which case "hell" must be a very large place with all of those millions of souls in it.

The so-called "double standard," in which men judge women negatively, and call women vile names for the same behavior that they themselves indulge in, which has never been taken on by the "powers that be," is a different thing, involving only the male ego. Because of the physical differences between males and females, there is no bloody sheet that can be displayed in more primitive cultures by the bride to prove that her husband was a virgin prior to the wedding night. Men do not necessarily wear white to their weddings to signify their "purity."

I completely agree with you and I wish there was more focus on establishing an emotional bond before getting physical but it's really hard to put that particular genie back in the bottle. Nowadays there's a lot of resentment and distrust between both sexes and it's a real shame because true love is better than sex, but it's something most people will never find because they're too busy screwing around.

I have to agree with you. I have always believed that sexual activity should be founded on an emotional bond between the people involved: then anything and everything should go on that makes the both of them happy. May they swing from the chandelier (as long as it is properly anchored in a support beam!). But throughout history, we humans have always had emotionless sex, or predatory sex that amounted to nothing more than another notch on the bedpost or somebody's belt, the desire to have offspring named after one, or the payment of money. This has just always been. Even scriptures from the three Abrahamic religions speak of simply "taking" sex from those defeated in war, and of taking "wives" with whom they had no emotional connection, just sex to produce babies from their penises.

It is not a problem of sexuality. It is a problem of respect for other human beings, and also a problem of failing to understand the human emotional makeup. Anyone can have sexual intercourse. The real issue is whether we bed down with people who, after it is over, we can cuddle with, kiss, talk about our dreams and hopes, care for, protect; somebody who we would come running to if the were ill or in the hospital. It's being there that counts.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

Do we need people to be having babies? People want to enjoy their life, we can do this AND the population of the world keeps increasing.

Yes, actually, each culture MUST continue to 'make' people UNLESS they come to terms culturally and economically that they will cease to exist.

But each culture will change regardless. You can't force culture to remain, otherwise it becomes stagnant.

Change is inevitable, but conservatives will always fight the inevitable.

 

[night_son]

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

Seems like it's hip these days to abstain from being human, and it's posh to ride the American repopulation ship below the waves; port out, extinction home. Point blank: do we blame it on the cultural revolution and women choosing career or life adventure over motherhood? Are men equally responsible for their modern willingness to reject the responsibility of fatherhood for something less complicated? Have we finally philosophized our way into species mass grave?

Does 'having a choice' as the article mentions speak to easy availability of family planning? Will America fade away into the night of one last old age, smartphones on drive mode, or will enough of us take the leap from surfing on-the-line to drowning in dirty diapers, thereby skin of teeth replenishing the suburban game preserve?

What does a decrease in immigration and immigrants reproducing say about our own decline in willingness to get it on for a soon to be walking talking spitting image?

Do we need people to be having babies? People want to enjoy their life, we can do this AND the population of the world keeps increasing.

Yes, actually, each culture MUST continue to 'make' people UNLESS they come to terms culturally and economically that they will cease to exist.

But each culture will change regardless. You can't force culture to remain, otherwise it becomes stagnant.

Change is inevitable, but conservatives will always fight the inevitable.

While millennia of history has demonstrated change, I think you're glossing over important historical patterns. Take practice of Saturnalia in ancient Rome for instance, which is an example of a cultural shift toward debauchery, which in some ways was answered by the rise of the Roman Catholic Church--a change toward conservatism from liberalism.

So it works both ways. Nothing stays the same, granted, and yet culture changes toward new, revolutionary ideas and also shifts back toward the traditional. Thus should the cultural wave we've experienced in America shift back toward a more rigid moral code of tradition, that shift must also be included in your "each culture will change" statement against conservatism.