Increased Childlessness in the US

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It's super tied to the average level of education of females.

In fact you can predict on that alone.

In Sub-Saharan counties where average schooling ends in the teens you get 6 or more kids per woman.

In countries where the average female stops around 23, you get less than two.

Many - having experienced little love in their early formative years - view children as a burden on their personal freedom and ability to enjoy life. So much fun stuff to do. Some think that there are too many people in the World anyway and do their part (ahem) to reverse it, and ironically, they are the smart and responsible ones we need more of.

People need the energy of Love like plants need light. A childhood without love is a real problem for the greater society. I think the day will come when Science will bear this out. "Where there is no vision, my people die". Love in early life is critical, and on to adulthood even more so.

Moving up the hard way.

This is a natural reaction to the sky high housing and rental cost. How can people have kids when everything is so expensive? I say this is a good thing. We will be dead and gone, but hoping for population collapses so future generations don’t have to deal with this.

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It's super tied to the average level of education of females.

In fact you can predict on that alone.

In Sub-Saharan counties where average schooling ends in the teens you get 6 or more kids per woman.

In countries where the average female stops around 23, you get less than two.

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It's also tied to social safety nets and mortality rates.

In those sub-Saharan countries, children are your social security when you get old. People can't simply rely on government. And given infant and childhood mortality rates, and lifespan rates, if someone wants to have four children alive and somewhat prosperous to take care of them when they are old, they may need to have 5 births. Or even 6.

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I would almost bet the exact same statistics cover the US as well.

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Broadly it seems it does, but there are outliers, Alaska has good education and birth rates, West Virginia and Montana have bad for both.

Something worth looking at in more detail in the future.

Eff them women

There is multiple reasons this is happening but the top 2 are leftist indoctrination at the college level and the economic factors of having children today.

It sounds like 46% of women have enough sense not to bring children into the world that they can't afford to raise.