re: Fertility rates dip, people are having babies later

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The overall decline in births is explained in part by the increasing age of first-time mothers, according to Carolina Aragão, a research associate at Pew Research Center.

“Women have been delaying motherhood,” Aragão said. When people have their first child later, they tend to have fewer children overall, Levine explained.

Birth rates among women in their late 30s and early 40s rose in the last decade, and the birth rate among women over 45 also exceeded one birth per 1,000 population for the first time in more than a decade.

Meanwhile, the teen birth rate dropped to a record low in 2022. There were 13.5 births for every 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, down from 13.9 in 2021, according to the new CDC data.

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Would the correlation of the ease of obtaining abortions also play into a lot of these figures?

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Fear (Global Warming etc)

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Lol! Are people actually deciding their family size based on carbon footprint impact? They probably shouldn’t have kids then

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Porn Decreasing Testosterone Alphabet+X2 cannot have kids Cost of Living Push for Independent Working Women Fear (Global Warming etc)

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It’s a chicken-egg situation on most of those things and lower birth rates.

Small and broken (a lot easier to divorce or never marry without small children in the picture) families contribute in general to feelings of isolation and lack of identity, which makes people susceptible to lots of things which make it less likely that they will want children.

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Yeh, they were really doing it right

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Compared to who?

The descendants of those poor, dirty (better off never born?) depression era kids who are marrying late, not having children, and posting selfies from a different country every few months?

I’m not judging individuals lifestyle choices, but let’s not pretend it’s some objective moral standard we are using to say we are doing it better now.

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Some of those kids were dying from malnutrition, and other kids were being sent off to random family members to raise them so they could eat….

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Yeah, none of that stuff happening these days.

Not on the same scale.

Plus, they probably wouldnt have had all those kids back then if their BC was "pull out and hope for the best"

Well I don't think we need 10 person families to keep rhe borth rate increasing.

Younger people always try to blame how expensive it is to raise kids, but like someone mentioned. It was always expensive, but people just have no taste for reducing their luxuries.

It isn't too expensive to raise kids, it is too expensive to raise kids and not make a sacrifice. Which is fine, just realize that society goald changed.

Likely the quality of life at the bottom doesn't degrade near as much for the decision of having multiple kids. Instead of 2 kids sharing a room it is 3. They aren't missing a yearly trip to Destin and Disney because they weren't going anyway.

Coupled with lack of heathcare options, planning options, and education.

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Fertility rates dip, people are having babies later

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SOME people are having babies later. Many are having babies now.

And it wasn’t a sacrifice previous generations had to make, because it was far cheaper relatively speaking

Families are more expensive than ever. Just a simple economic fact