re: US fertility rate plummets by a quarter in less than 20 years

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Give the producers in this country a significant tax rebate (+$15k), and the number of births from desirables would skyrocket.

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Raising FSA limits would help

$7500 might cover summer camps

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In 2017, the average weight of American woman surpassed 170lbs for the first time.

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What about men? At least women gained weight during pregnancy. What’s men’s excuse?

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Give the producers in this country a significant tax rebate (+$15k), and the number of births from desirables would skyrocket.

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Have a child and not on welfare, your federal tax burden should be halved.

2 children, 75%.

3 or more children, 100%.

You have to fully support them without any form of assistance.

We have 4. Ages 14, 9, 7, and 5. I wish we could have a 5th, but my wife had 4 c-sections and her OBGYN doctor told her she would be too high risk for a 5th. We're both working parents and don't have immediate help nearby (her parents 1 hour way and mine are 2.5 hours away). It's very busy and constant chaos, but we wouldn't have it any other way. Our kids are our world, and they will have purpose on this earth as adults. We send them to private school and vacation as much as financially possible. It's worth all the hours working to provide them that luxury. And we're not OT baller rich either.

If your hesitant because you don't think you can financially afford kids or that you will need help, my advice is that you will find a way to make it work. And it's worth it. In 13-14 years, we would potentially be empty nesters, but we won't be alone when we're in our 60s/70s and older.

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Future history books might well regard the pill as the doomsday weapon that destroyed Western and Westernized industrial civilization

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Birth rates fell below way below replacement rate before the pill was even introduced.

The boomer generation is the anomaly. Birth rates have been trending down in America for 100 years

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Had I it to do over again, I’d have more.

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Wish I had met my wife earlier. I think I would have been supportive of having four or five.

I never would have considered that many until having some.

My daughter is at three with one in the oven.

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anecdotally there seems to be one demographic this does not apply to

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Mormons, yes.

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Think hard… that window is closing. Plenty of people make it work in their late 30s.

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You want to know why rates of things like Autism have increased? Age of the parents is one reason. It’s not the only reason but older women have more problems with children and disabilities.

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Id love to have more kids. Unfortunately can only afford two with both thr wife and I working. We could afford 3 but we are both almost 40.

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do it

We didn’t know how we would afford one, then even more so number two, and so on for number 3. But it ends up working.

Kids are the most loveable assholes you could ever hangout with