US Fertility Rate collapsing - new record low!

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I wanted to belive this as well but turns out, it isn't true.

Most new immigrants are males in their 20's. By they time they have established themselves in their career and have moved up to the middle class, they (or their girlfriends/wives) are often too old already to conceive.

Immigration is a short term solution (added workforce) but long term you have even more retirees and less kids.

Nothing is free.

But the birth rates in the UK and Europe are even lower than in the US.

The data shows immigrants have a much higher birth rate per Capita than the non-immigrant population.

2.19 vs 1.73 - Center for Immigration Studies. Source below.

https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Immigrants-and-Natives-United-States-2023

Correct, but insufficient reply.

There are vastly fewer problems with people going bankrupt/facing financial hell in Europe because of insane healthcare costs.

The systems are better at preventing the rich from ripping off the masses

Have you heard the song Flowers by Miley Cyrus? This is the reality for most women in the US. They don't have to do anything they don't want--that includes have a big headed baby. Thus, fertility rates drop.

It's not about economics. It's not about global warming or even Trump. It's about having a million choices of which only a few are get pregnant and have a baby.

Asia and Europe are even worse

Exactly. All these excuses about "the state of the world" meanwhile people have been having children steadily through MUCH harder times

A lot of people will end up regretting intentionally not having children when they are in their 40s and 50s. Also contributing to the lower fertility rates is the rise in actual infertility within men and women (not just not wanting kids). My wife and I have been trying for 2 years and it is painful to see how easy it is for some people to become pregnant.

Over a long enough timeline, ALL nations will cease to exist. Musk is useless.

Dr Debra Soh, neuroscientist & author of "Sextinction," discusses the falling birth & marriage rates, as well as a significant decline in male/female intimacy. Some mindboggling statistics & trends she presents:

Falling fertility rates is a better outcome than passing along inferior/mutant gooner genetics.

Everyone: It is driven by the state of the economy, low paying jobs, expensive housing and healthcare, lack of social support programs, and political uncertainty.

MAGA: No, women are just selfish.

Exactly, like you did using too-vague-to-even-be-wrong descriptors like “geriatric”. I have no issue with the quantitative claims in your subsequent post above, but would say that the absolute percentage risk of the death of 35+year-old pregnant women is still minuscule despite it being a multiple higher than women in their twenties. The rest is largely about how much you have to try to succeed. People want what they want when they want it, and you shouldn’t be telling them they are “geriatric”, but just dispassionately report complication risk stats for awareness, if you are actually concerned as a doctor like your label suggests.

I just don't get why anyone here cares what the birth rate is. If you want kids, have kids, and if you don't, then don't. Why does it matter what other people are doing? You can't control it anyway and you shouldn't try.

Which is a lagging factor unfortunately. With a decreasing population, you would assume housing would become abundant and cheap, but that is not the case.

Even in countries like Taiwan, where Universities are closing due to the lack of enrolling students (there are simply not enough), lack of housing is often cited as a reason not to have more kids.

Of course, the reality is more nuanced, young people would like to have a 3 bedroom appartment downtown, and yeah, that won't happen anytime soon, no matter if it's in the US, Japan or Taiwan.

Also, for those talking about geriatric pregnancies, you know what gives you the lowest health risks? Not getting pregnant in the first place.

Please do us all a favor and don't have children.