cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45445434
Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Marc Siegel made some eyebrow-raising comments lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
On Thursday, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that the U.S. fertility rate fell to another record low. The agency reported that the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age declined from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.1 last year. The latest figure represents a continuation of a decades-long decline in fertility rates.
Siegel joined Friday’s edition of America’s Newsroom, where Dana Perino said that while the continuing trend is not surprising, “the numbers might feel a little shocking.”
Getting the child born is the cheap part, getting them to grow up is the real money sink.
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.