Will births in the US rebound? Probably not

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2 points·steelstraw··2 comments

People get concerned about migrants replacing natives. What they don't realize is that after just a single generation, the birth rates of these communities plummet. It's women's education all the way down. Women have a career? Less likely to have a family, and also (if they do) to start later and thus have fewer kids. Any article that portrays population decline as a good thing (often for environmental reasons) will actively promote this link. Only two things could change this downward birthing trend:

1) ectogenesis (babies grown outside the womb)

2) reversal of women's rights and political enfranchisement

So unless you're down with transhumanist or neo-reactionary ideologies, it's time to adjust to a world with more elderly than kids for at least the next century.

> 2) reversal of women's rights and political enfranchisement

Has to be this but framing it as a loss of rights and political enfranchisement is a problem. This supposed 'unfairness' of women's lot before universal suffrage was (surprise!) a well-funded media manipulation designed to sow discord in the foundational element of the social order, the family. Divide, Conquer, Rule.

Framing it as reclaiming a women and man's right to a healthy family or a revolt against run-away materialism might work better.

Even my die-hard university-educated retired professional feminist aunt admits that all feminism accomplished was doubling the cost of living, and halving the value of labor and the birthrate, as well as wrecking a lot of homes.

Nobody is happier for it, least of all women.

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