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02-11-2013, 04:55 AM
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The number of U.S. babies born to teen mothers dropped to record lows in 2011, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fewer women also gave birth in their 20s than in prior years, researchers found - but the birth rate increased for those in their late 30s and early 40s.
"The economy has declined, and that certainly is a factor that goes into people's decisions about having a child," said CDC statistician Brady Hamilton, lead author of the new report.
http://news.yahoo.com/teen-births-contin...09020.html
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02-11-2013, 06:39 AM
In other news...video game sales on the rise.
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02-11-2013, 11:03 AM
In a primarily rural economy, children are an asset. They provide "free" labor, and a farm produces enough food to feed a dozen children as easily as one or two. When a populace becomes more urbanized, however, either living in cities or living in suburbs and small towns, children become a liability, because every child means a hit to the wallet. You have to buy more food at the store, you have to buy clothes (and the standards of dress are much higher in a city than they are in some rural farming community. You never see girls wearing flour-sack dresses anymore.) Tuitions, daycare, and other accessories of modern life like cars and cellphones for the teenagers all add up, while the children seldom provide any financial benefits unless the family is on welfare, which means all these costs are simply absorbed by the state.
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02-11-2013, 01:30 PM
Maybe girls are seeing shows like Sixteen and Pregnant and then resolving to be more diligent about taking the pill?
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02-11-2013, 02:01 PM
So many ways to make children affordable again:
- Higher tax exemptions
- Elimination of public schooling
- Privatizing colleges and no more federal loans
America spends more $$$ on its kids today than ever before... and yet kids are more messed up and less accomplished than ever.
Kids who do well come from good families. Kids who do bad come from bad families. Making giant social programs that suck the country dry isn't going to change this.
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02-11-2013, 02:26 PM
I think obesity is one reason. When a girl/ woman reaches a certain BMI, it is harder to conceive. The excess fat tissue throws off her hormone balance.
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02-11-2013, 02:47 PM
Speakeasy, part of that safety net was that your kids would care for you in your later years. That's mostly unnecessary nowadays, what with social security and Medicare. Now that the state is doling out money to the elderly, the elderly don't have to rely on their kids. Depending on you ask, welfare weakens families and promotes independence - and both charges are true.
The decline in births is probably a result of our current recession. Even with 'unintended' pregnancies, when times are bad, people get more worried about having a baby. I haven't seen any evidence that it's a cultural change.
There's a simple solution to teen and unintended pregnancies - long term birth control, which requires the user do nothing beyond the initial procedure, for months or years. Intrauterine devices are one such device. They're a lot more popular elsewhere. It always astonishes me that their use is not more common.
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02-11-2013, 04:30 PM
Do teenagers seriously worry about the recession while they're engaging in their early, unprotected pumps 'n' dumps?
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05-15-2019, 09:29 AM
U.S. Births Fall to Lowest Level Since 1980s
Number of babies born has declined in 10 of the last 11 years as fertility rate slumps
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-births-...1557892860
Article is there, but I wanted to post the charts.
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