A Growing Number Of Americans Are Losing Interest In Having Kids

The following report is from Insider:

Being a parent is losing its appeal.

So finds a new study by the Pew Research Center that surveyed over 3,800 Americans ages 18 to 49. Among non-parents in this cohort, 44% said it’s not too likely or not likely at all they’ll have kids someday. That’s up by 7 percentage points from the 37% of childless adults who said the same in 2018.

There is no sole driving force behind the uptick in Americans eschewing childbearing, according to Pew. As seen in the chart below, more than half of this group just doesn’t want kids. The remaining 43% cited various factors, with medical reasons and financial reasons as the top two.

Among adults surveyed who are already parents, nearly three-quarters say they’re unlikely to have more kids, which Pew says is “virtually unchanged” since 2018. Similar to their childless counterparts, most said they just don’t want more kids. The rest largely cited age and medical reasons as their top babymaking deterrents, followed by financial reasons.

Anna Brown, research associate at Pew Research Center and author of the report, told Insider that medical reasons include infertility or an illness, while financial reasons entail things like childcare costs or job loss, which millions of Americans had experienced during the pandemic.

Money has long been a reason why many millennials, who have long been facing an affordability crisis, have put off having kids or not having them at all. Recessions — like the financial crisis and coronavirus downturn the generation has experienced back-to-back — typically have the strongest economic influence on birth and fertility rates. 

That’s not to mention the high price tag of having a child. National childcare costs average between $9,000 and $9,600 annually, per advocacy organization Child Care Aware. That’s unaffordable for 63% of full-time working parents in the US. 

But it’s not just the literal cost of raising a child that has increased. So, too, has the opportunity cost, and it explains a lot about the growing share of Americans who just don’t desire to have kids.

Women Are Seeking Other Paths In Life

Pew’s study follows the baby bust news that has marked much of 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed earlier this year that the US birth rate had fallen by 4% from 2019 to 2020, the sharpest single-year decline in nearly 50 years and the lowest number of births since 1979. 

Brown said it’s too soon to tell how Pew’s recent findings will impact the overall birth rate. But the number of American births has been declining for six years as millennial women have been waiting to have babies until a later age.

We’ve also kind of seen this expectation of having children falling over the last few years, but we can’t really predict how it will change in the future.

We already know that women are having children a lot later in life. So we may be seeing more women toward the end of their childbearing years having kids.

That’s normal if you look at worldwide trends. There’s been a broader shift among high-income countries and some middle-income countries for women to postpone having kids until later ages, Christine Percheski, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University, previously told Insider. The US, she said, was a little slower to see that increase. Seeing it now is a sign of economic progress.

It’s about women having access to education and employment opportunities. It’s about the rise in individualism. It’s about the rise in women’s autonomy and a change in values.

As Gina Tomaine wrote for Philly Mag, millennials like to be unencumbered and their economic experiences have made them question what makes a successful, meaningful life.

Maybe a full, rich life is one that’s overflowing with creativity, travel, exploration — all stuff that kids make more difficult.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 4:1-3

There are many factors as to why birthrates are shrinking, but this report sums it up: people are broke, and women don’t want to be women. This is why marriages continually descend lower and lower annually, more marriages fail within a year than ever before leading to a divorce; and cohabitation, whoremongering, bed-hopping, sodomy, orgies, continue to skyrocket. Baseball used to be the great American pass time: now it’s pornography in a dark room when people are not on social media or playing video games.

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[3] But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. [4] Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. [5] But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. [6] For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

1 Corinthians 11:3-6

[9] In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; [10] But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. [11] Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. [12] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. [13] For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [14] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. [15] Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

1 Timothy 2:9-15

In order for Satan to destroy the home, he does not go after the child or the man, he attacks the woman. Here in America the problems began to get started post-Civil War, when a double-whammy occurred: hundreds of thousands of men died, leaving behind many widows and a generation of many children without their fathers, and many more fathers who suffered from PTSD, drunkenness, gambling, revellings, etc. The point is, Satan was able to sneak in and start working on the woman. And here we are now.

It is also important to note that the American foods and drinks are highly toxic, and have extreme estrogenic properties – messing up both male and female’s hormones, causing effeminacy and transvestites, via the water supply, packaging, gmo’s, and so on. Moreover, a vegetarian/vegan diet WILL cause infertility over time (which falls right in line with 1 Timothy 4).

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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