The Answer to Falling Birth Rates Isn’t More Pressure on Women
As the current administration and pro-natalist groups continue to panic about women delaying motherhood, we must reject the “alarming fertility statistics.” If women choose to have children, that decision should be guided by their own goals, circumstances, and desires, not by pressures to solve a manufactured problem.
At the end of the day, supporting families means creating conditions in which people can make reproductive decisions freely. The solution to declining birth rates is not limiting women’s choices, but ensuring they have the resources and support needed to build the lives and families they want.
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Animals under high stress do not reproduce. This has been well established. Humans are animals. The global economy has produced too much stress and the rewards are going to a handful of people, while we suffer to make "line must always go up" a reality for them, we can't afford food. But we did briefly have the world's first trillionaire, so that's pretty nifty.
It's not really about the stress so much as it is about women having control over their own life choices.
At this point 90% of the time someone starts on about demographics and birthrates, it’s just fascist dog whistling. I can’t be convinced declining birth rates are a real problem, our labor has long since stopped being the limiting factor on productivity. The evidence is in how many pointless jobs there are.
I was shocked to discover just how many people think bullshit jobs are a myth.
Same, I can’t be bothered to be worried about something that isn’t actually a problem.
Oh no, women are more in control of their life choices?! Yeah I’m not opposed to that.
That is what they are actually scared of lol.
The weird right will argue the solution is allowing adult men to impregnate 15-17 year olds, but only for the benefit of society (they swear it’s not for their own perverse pleasure)
Yep, several on the right have been throwing absolute fits that the falling birth rate is partially tied to teens preventing pregnancies at higher rates.
Disgusting.
Wild stuff. Reducing teen pregnancy has been a goal of nearly everyone in society for decades. I can understand why they might be more concerned about fertility rates among adults but teen pregnancy is very dangerous...
It’s not been a goal amongst Christians.