re: Population growth in the US is becoming stagnant. Should we ban hormonal birth control?

No people dont have kids because of financial issues.
And poor people dont give a shite they will popem out non stop.
Make having and raising kids w/ a quality of life more affordable and you will see people have more children.

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hildren are so financially expensive and labor intensive to raise

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They are, but I feel like it's crazy overstated. This leads to people not even attempting ot have children until much later in life than before, and in part due to this new time constraint, people have less kids.


Raising kids is tough, but as a society we instill in young people (high school kids) that having sex and getting pregnant might as well be worse than death, so many young people feel they have to be rich rich before even considering it. They've been told all their lives that having an unplanned pregnancy is just about the worst outcome you can have in life. That's hard to shake.

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there is a very clear negative correlation between government incentives and birth rates.

The countries that give the most benefits and provide the most welfare for new moms/new families have some of the lowest birthrates.

There are countries that have free healthcare, free childcare, free school, YEARS of paid time off for care of newborn/infants and all of that led to a FURTHER declining birthrate.

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Chicken or Egg?

LBJ's WOP policy supporting/rewarding out-of-wedlock births sure as hell tore a hole in US indigent families.

Implying the reverse couldn't occur, is illogical

Part of it is cultural. Boomer and silent generation parents would kick their kids out of the house and tell them not to come back until the streetlights came on. Older millennials and gen xers were often latchkey kids whose parents were always working.

However, in the past 20 years, culture became extremely paranoid about unsupervised children. Kids stopped being allowed to walk places by themselves. Parents would get the cops or CPS called on them for letting their kids go to the park alone. Kids were expected to be chaperoned at all times. This requires helicopter parents who schedule every minute of their child’s day and are their kid’s sole vehicle for interacting with the world outside their home.

This development has been incredibly damaging to both children and parents, and must be reversed. This forces parents to either be helicopters micromanaging every second of their kids’ lives or to pawn them off on ipads and technology to distract and pacify their kids long enough for their parents to be able to literally focus on anything else. Parents of zoomers and gen alpha are expected to spend a lot more time and labor on a daily basis parenting their kids than did previous generations, and the penalties for not doing so are jail time and/or the government stealing your kids from you to probably give to abusive pedos in the foster system.

Or we could pursue government policies that promote responsible people having children, instead of taxing and shaming young adults to the point of misery and hopelessness.

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Or we could pursue government policies that promote responsible people having children, instead of taxing and shaming young adults to the point of misery and hopelessness.

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I guess before birth control only irresponsible people had children unexpectedly.

Banning Hollywood and all of Zuckerberg's platforms would be more effective.

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The no need for men, no need for marriage messaging targets JrHigh and High Schoolers hard, and has proven tragically effective.

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We need counter programming. Especially the science that shows how these drugs may be unsafe.

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I’m open to suggestions, but nobody has ever been able to sufficiently explain why it’s a problem.



What do you think this country looks like when there are a shite load of expensive, old and unproductive people and very very few young people who are innovating and producing?

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That problem that will solve itself within the next 20 years when 70-80% of the Boomers have passed. The most serious problem the US is facing is remaining a constitutional republic as the popularity of Democratic Socialism/Marxism continues to rise, followed closely by multi trillion dollar budget deficits.

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Young people are not having sex nearly as much as previous gens.

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In my opinion this is a net positive. Have you seen half the population today? They are retarded, autistic, blue hair freaks. Those people are already a burden to taxpayers. Just look at Roger for proof of that. The offspring of these losers will be a burden to taxpayers for their entire lives.