Number 1 reason is the cost is to damn high . $250k just to raise your kid until he graduates high school , 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck .
Well the schools and the government pay a lot of the costs for my kids in Pennsylvania. My disabled child especially. So honestly, it’s not as bad in some places as it could be. It’s a better place to raise disabled children in most places than 20 years ago.
women dont date down and most women now are making more than the average men. dating apps, body counts and divorce laws are the ones who destroyed marriage and the family institution. the cost is high and women are only going for the 20% wealthiest men nowadays.
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepesdisabled people aren’t going to contribute to the economy in a fiscal sense for the most part. They mostly cost the government money. I don’t think they’ve included disabled children in the equation because of that.
@cm-qt9ir people were idiots back then. They’d pop out 5 kids, get married at 15, etc. and think nothing of it. Totally nuts. I think best / cheapest time to have kids, at least in USA, was in the 1960’s to early 2000’s.
@cm-qt9iru are talking about people who were suffering and subjected their children to suffering. For what? For a corrupt, greedy system that chews us up and spits us out? Research the propaganda the government created to get people to breed back then. People were pretty much brainwashed into breeding. Evolution makes people more intelligent in 21st century 😂
@cm-qt9irYou would be the same person against and talking crap about people signing up for welfare and food stamps because they couldn’t afford their kids.
There are 3rd world countries and poor communities in the U.S. which families have 6 plus children. The economy has little to do with birthrate decline. It is about choices of women! Women decide if they want to be mothers or not. Most women are choosing NOT to become mothers!
The world has always been evil and always will be. You think there was a better time in the past or will be some better time in the future? World’s always been a mess. There is no ideal time. This is such a stupid reason.
@@livnsouthflorida why would you think I care whether you procreate or not?I don’t. Doesn’t affect me one bit. Just couldn’t resist correcting your fallacy for laughs.
I’m surprised that the birth rates are not lower in the USA. We have a cost of living crisis, stagnant wages that can't keep up with inflation, exorbitant childcare costs, workplace policies that force women to return weeks after giving birth, and high healthcare costs; this is just to name a few reasons.
@@izzyci Well, I work and see plenty of other white people around me. Seems like you’re falling into the category of “If you’re used to privilege, then equality feels like oppression.” So again, your own fault. 😘
@@izzyci Asian Americans make up majority of Ivy League graduates , usually best and the brightest but yet I never seen an Asian American head of any Fortune 500 snowflake!
@@izzyciLMAOOOOO european americans ??????? LMAOOO WHAT DID I JUST READ AHAHAHHAHAHAHA your comment logs are so funny 🤣 bruh relax & stop complaining about diversity. also, more than just white people live in europe, you shouldn’t act like a prejudiced bigot and an ignorant one
It's too expensive. It's not safe to be pregnant in the US. Having to go back to work 6wks after giving birth is inhumane. We don't separate DOGS from their moms that early, but American women are expected to drop their baby off at daycare and go back to work...or risk losing their job.
@c m I don’t think it’s wise for me to have kids while I’m on the sex offender registry. I don’t live a normal life and my kids wouldn’t either. Sometimes you don’t know what people are going through. Life is already impossible while being subject to American sex offender registry laws.
@cm-qt9ir Actually the data shows people had way less kids during those times. Birth rates increased after those times and when the economy improved. (Baby boom happened after ww2, not during or before the war)
@cm-qt9ir Nope. Data shows birth rates were reduced during ww1. Demographic data shows the 1910s-1930s had lower birth rates. The silent generation was a smaller generation compared to GI generation and Baby Boomers. Yes, birth rates are lower now than during the 1930s, but there was a short period where birth rates decreased in the 1930s. They only increased right after WW2.
I've been knee-deep in this topic on CZcams for the past three days... This is by far the best comment I've seen from the trove of comment sections I've been through.
@The Equilibriumist gun violence is the number 1 cause of death in children in this country 6 years running.. It is on a lot of people's minds and I've talked to people who have decided not to have kids because of the mass shootings and gun violence. Are you living under a rock or something? We are 6 months into the year and there has been 285 mass shootings this year that's more than 1 a day why would people want to bring children into a environment like that. It just dawned on me that your probably a republican and everything I said will go right over your head because your dumb enough to vote for a orange kool-aid drinker rapists.
To encourage women to have baby after baby without enough money, daycare or college is foolish. If we want lots of children just to stimulate our economy the plan will backfire and we'll breeding more homeless people.
Exactly. I bet you the same people who are crying about the US population decline don't support making life easier for people such as allowing student debt relief, daycare stipends, etc. They can spare me their fake outrage if they don't support measures to make life easier for people.
@cm-qt9ir You mean "Too lazy". You need to capitalize "Too" since that's the first word of your sentence and you need to spell it correctly. It's "T-O-O" not just "T-O". Edit your comment and re-post it so that "Too" is spelled correctly! ~Dutch
@c m Kids are expensive in developed world especially with inflation burning your savings people don’t have a lot of money to survive and pay for basic living needs how can they pay and take care of kids they aren’t free cost of raising a child in usa is 350,000 for 18 years of their lifetime people don’t make that kind of money even working hard for 18 years 😢
Having babies during actual hard times is the norm historically. My opinion is people are not having babies because our young adults don't have the social skills and confidence to form and maintain relationships. This is due to technology and societal factors in my opinion.
I can't even afford McDonald's rn and I'm a manager at my job >_> I'd need like 60k a year to even consider having a kid, not to mention the costly add on like childcare, school, heathcare cost... Healcare *shudders*
Yes you are crazy but it's pointless to explain it here in youtube. To summarize it really quickly: with less people the productiviy of the economy declines and everyone is poorer, including you.
@@TheFate23 You're absolutely right! a lot of people consume and that drives economies. Less people less consumption less economy less jobs lower opportunities hello great depression lol Every buddy is broke.
I'm not giving birth in no damn 40s. I'm retiring childfree and stress free! The birth rates ain't my problem. Blame the governments and how they treat woman!
33 here and will be retiring overseas soon. Still looking for a place for me!!! Idc about this world once I'm dead and gone and have 0 interest feeding a ponzi scheme parasitic system!
Are you joking. It is MEN who have to risk it all now a days. The opposite sex literally has ALL the social programs and benefit of the doubt and are blameless. Nice try with the disinformation
Are you joking. It is MEN who have to risk it all now a days. The opposite sex literally has ALL the social programs and benefit of the doubt and are blameless. Nice try with the disinformation
There's something that I think a lot of people are missing here: our working culture doesn't support having children. When we have to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week not including time off or weekends, there's simply not enough time to work around people's schedules to make lasting relationships and long-term family planning work PARTICULARLY when you may be punished for taking time off for that. We ought to move to more leisurely society in which we work less, and have more time to make things work. I don't believe its just an issue of throwing money at people and then telling them "now make babies".
Tax incentives (similar to France's practices to prevent a complete collapse of its population) also help as plasters to a gaping wound. But that's the thing, those solutions are merely plasters on a gaping wound.
@@riareed1269 Prior to it being overturned, there were on average more than 600,000 abortions per year since the 90's. That's 18 million people, gone to save women from their own choices. That's why the birth rate is down. Not to mention planned B and condoms. Women of the modern West are having more sex than women in any recorded time in history.
@@purpleblack475 If I were uneducated and unintelligent I would probably come to the same conclusion. You believe that 9 billion is too many, and stopped the calculations there. People like you are the prime reason I believe in testing for the rights to vote.
Practically no one talks about this, yet you always hear about Japan’s declining birth rate. I was surprised to see that Japan and the US’ birth rate is almost identical.
USA accepts massive numbers of immigrants to replace the native population. Japan does not, so the effects of their ageing and shrinking population are far more noticable
Covid-19, financial struggles, raising divorces, exorbitant cost of living; How can the average person afford to raise a child when they can barely afford to live on 2 jobs?
Tbh, people can talk all they want about how we need more babies and more families and more people. Nobody cares about solving the problem, only the symptoms. Miss me with the scare tactics.
Attempting to reverse significant demographic decline is like attempting to alter the trajectory of a very large Earth-bound asteroid: you have to start trying at least twenty years ago!
No its not education its the housing crisis that is effecting us. Its not possible to rent affordably while in school and working. You need to pay people like in Denmark for educating them self's so they can rent and start a family.
Is better not having kids then see them on the news people abandoning them. Or being killed. Also is better hopefully young teens don't do stupid stuff, instead of enjoying life. Having kids is a Blessing or a curse. In the right time
Facts are facts. Kids are expensive, these analysts state that they ecomically will suffer from a falling birth rate. Middle class households say freakin awesome i can make that car payment and not go hungry.
It’s too effing expensive and people are tired of debt slavery! Mothers barely have paid maternity leave or time off to raise their children because employers/lawmakers/voters suck including government employers. Men don’t want to be functional fathers/husbands either. Those are the real reasons we stopped having children here.
We live in a Corporatocracy as evidenced by Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010). Having productive employees is more important than human reproduction in our society. This dynamic is playing itself out around the planet.
Why would you ever want to have a kid in the US right now? I would only have children if I could have them in another country that actually would care about my baby. The US is a grinder, and they're only looking for new babies to grind up in the machine that is capitalism. They don't actually care about the well being of babies in society. There is little to no maternity or paternity leave and we're the only country that suffers from this, bank breaking healthcare costs, unaffordable housing, unhinged grocery costs, more 🔫 violence in public schools, our officials are so divided that nothing gets done, and there are little to no precautions to solve Global Warming. Like, who would want to bring a child up in this vile mess? Especially if our adult population can't even keep their own head's above water. Its just being responsible really to not want to bring a child into poverty while the elderly members of society hoard a majority stake of the wealth. Like, make things better for the middle class and we'll have kids. But you know the rich won't do it and would rather prefer a global collapse than give up even a bit of their wealth.
Enterprises: "We will not pay more, the labor cost is too high" People: "If you don´t pays more we will not have children" Enterprises: "We will not pay more" People: "Then, no children, the end" Goverment: "Arggg, there will be no future" Everybody: " So be it!" The end.
Can you blame anyone? I live in a two person house hold. I’m making $15.50 and my husbands making $16 some thing. Our rent is $925 before utilities. Then we have gas money and groceries which keep going up. I have college loans and we have car loans. We either pay late or barley pay on time. Our fridge is so bare you’d wonder how we eat. The doctors visits for baby check ups before birth is crazy expensive. It’s 20-100k to take them home from the hospital. They charge you extra money to hold your baby after birth. We don’t have that kind of money. So no kids 🤷🏽♀️
@@kevinsheth1936 when you’re divorced you still have kids, and later grandchildren as well. But When you never bother to get married and/or procreate in the first place, then you have no children or grandchildren around when you’re old and dying
@@evanhughes1510 now that is selfish!! To have kids because you don’t want to be alone when you age and need someone to take care of you. Go to a nursing home and just leave the planet 🌎 but don’t bring children in this crazy world without a good plan to ensure they will not be in a cycle of poverty. I think it’s a great thing that young people are thinking twice before having babies that they can not take care of. If the country needs them for economic growth, then pay for them, simple!!!!
Another reason: Why would a woman want to put that much risk to her life when mortality rate is so high and now women don't always have any healthcare if things go south. Half the US would rather just watch a woman and baby die.
Women aren’t having fewer children. The percentage of women having no kids has skyrocket. The percentage having 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 kids have remained the same, but 0 kids have increased dramatically.
Well yeah...the only people who continue breeding are those on assistance...kids are expensive and if I have extra money Id want to spend it on myself...I had 2 dogs once and that was enough..
I have lots of women acquaintances that have aspirations of being wives and mothers. It's expensive and good men are hard to find, especially as a traditional woman.
@@dorothy6200 "🤤 ohhh durrr I think humans should die and everything should die because I want my lazy life to continue dirrrrrrr". Also plenty of people want to start a family these days and have to ability to. Do you want to restrict them from that?
@@moisuomi I only referred to myself and what I want in my comment. Everything else is not my problem. I refuse to get pregnant like an irresponsible selfish person. I will have kids when I’m ready for them. That’s far from lazy. It’s called having a brain.
@@dorothy6200 Fair enough. I assume you want to live out your 20s single semi-relaxed, then around your late 30s get into some kind of relationship, then have just one kid. Is my assessment accurate?
I'm 30 and my girlfriend, six years younger than me, is starting to pressure me into considering having a baby within the next year. Help me...... I can't afford it!!!!
@@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 yes and they also have different traditions and values that favor and flourish social cohesion compared to America where loneliness is an epidemic.
@cm-qt9ir People stopped having kids right before those times. Research shows birth rates plummeted in the early 20th century. After the wars, people started having kids because resources and wealth was more freed up.
@cm-qt9irStop reposting that comment all over the comment section, no one is going to be compelled to have kids and join you in your misery because of it🤡
USA is getting more expensive. Yes some women will wait until they are well establish to care for babies . The more the economy increases the less birthrate will be.
I have a coworker. His name is Tyrell. He has, I kid you not, a baby with five different women. it's no wonder he smokes other people's cigarette butts.
Not every parent is going to be a good parent and it can't damage the child and the child can become a social liability. The present world has many crisis that makes having children not a viable option. People who truly want children and not just beget children through wanton and unprotected one-night stand can have children and have multiple children if they want, but the economic, social, and political conditions of US and the world are not optimistic.
People need to get a grip. The baby crisis is a *possible* economic crisis not some apocalyptic catastrophe. Yeah, the economy *might* take a hit in the future but people will adapt. Scare mongering isn't going to make people bang!
It's just the government and rich elite that are terrified. They never discuss how these people should pay their fair share of taxes... they never discuss how they hoard money & resources... I say we starve them
It's already happened with both Japan and South Korea. In fact, the economy will NOT adapt because there are fewer people in an economy based on infinite growth in all sectors, this includes birth rates. You also ignore the amount of money required to tend to a large, non-working elderly population. For example, both Biden and Trump are old men whose brains are currently failing them. They can not operate in high-stress, high-attention environments. When you have more elderly people who are physically and more importantly mentally incapable of work, you have fewer able-fit people around to work on anything. Including the computers and robots meant to replace human labour in the future. This is why the replacement rate is such a crucial figure in any species. It is very idiotic to claim that "we can just adapt" or "this is just scaremongering" when you have an economy that's based on how many people are young, able-fit and ready to work in the first place.
Its expensive, its a terrible world, the quality of person isnt there anymore, and more people are getting procedures so they dont have kids so its only going to get worse.
Number 1 reason is the cost is to damn high . $250k just to raise your kid until he graduates high school , 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck .
More like 90%
Well the schools and the government pay a lot of the costs for my kids in Pennsylvania. My disabled child especially. So honestly, it’s not as bad in some places as it could be. It’s a better place to raise disabled children in most places than 20 years ago.
women dont date down and most women now are making more than the average men. dating apps, body counts and divorce laws are the ones who destroyed marriage and the family institution. the cost is high and women are only going for the 20% wealthiest men nowadays.
250k thats 1150 dollars per month.
seems like you got the whrong information, its 180k.
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepesdisabled people aren’t going to contribute to the economy in a fiscal sense for the most part. They mostly cost the government money.
I don’t think they’ve included disabled children in the equation because of that.
Government: We are going to make everything expensive
Also government: Strange, why is no one having kids?
I. The US we live in a capitalist economy. The government does not make things expensive, business does.They also set wages.
Here's a thought, maybe people ain't having children no more because they have realized "being alive on earth is overrated" like I have?
Kids are expensive.. not hard to understand why the birthrate is falling.
Exactly!! I don’t know why people are surprising.
Haha Fact!
Then why did we never have the issue during the great depression if it's just about money?
@@antoniot7928cultural programming? It was still taboo to not have kids back then
In Sudan they have nothing, but that doesn't stop them from having an average of 4.54 children per woman 🤷♂
Kids are expensive and ruin your life as you knew it. No thanks! Very happy to be 42, unmarried and childfree!
However, if a mother is receiving welfare benefits, her monthly subsidy increases substantially with every newborn child.
It’s too damn expensive to live life, let alone raise a human being for 20+ years. That’s why.
@cm-qt9ir people were idiots back then. They’d pop out 5 kids, get married at 15, etc. and think nothing of it. Totally nuts.
I think best / cheapest time to have kids, at least in USA, was in the 1960’s to early 2000’s.
@c m and back then you could support a family and a 4 bedroom home with a full time manufacturing job.
@cm-qt9ir how many kids do you have?
@cm-qt9iru are talking about people who were suffering and subjected their children to suffering. For what? For a corrupt, greedy system that chews us up and spits us out? Research the propaganda the government created to get people to breed back then.
People were pretty much brainwashed into breeding. Evolution makes people more intelligent in 21st century 😂
@cm-qt9irYou would be the same person against and talking crap about people signing up for welfare and food stamps because they couldn’t afford their kids.
In this economy, who would want to have kids now?
hispanics are still popping out kids like there’s no tomorrow and most new immigrants
Immigrant birth rates usually align with the host community within one or two generations.
There are 3rd world countries and poor communities in the U.S. which families have 6 plus children. The economy has little to do with birthrate decline. It is about choices of women! Women decide if they want to be mothers or not. Most women are choosing NOT to become mothers!
The question remains; WHY are women choosing not to have children?
@@keyboarddancers7751 Because they don't want children. Here is a better question: WHY do they want children?
Why bring a child into this evil world
The world has always been evil and always will be. You think there was a better time in the past or will be some better time in the future? World’s always been a mess. There is no ideal time. This is such a stupid reason.
@@evanhughes1510 I’m good, thanks for expressing your opinion.
@@livnsouthflorida you’re welcome. Just pointing out your flawed logic
@@evanhughes1510 thanks again, you can’t make me have a kid even with your wealth of logic
@@livnsouthflorida why would you think I care whether you procreate or not?I don’t. Doesn’t affect me one bit. Just couldn’t resist correcting your fallacy for laughs.
I’m surprised that the birth rates are not lower in the USA. We have a cost of living crisis, stagnant wages that can't keep up with inflation, exorbitant childcare costs, workplace policies that force women to return weeks after giving birth, and high healthcare costs; this is just to name a few reasons.
@@izzyci
The ones in your head, you mean. 🤣
@@izzyci
That’s to make sure that there’s diversity. If you can’t get hired, it’s your own fault. 😘
@@izzyci
Well, I work and see plenty of other white people around me. Seems like you’re falling into the category of “If you’re used to privilege, then equality feels like oppression.” So again, your own fault. 😘
@@izzyci Asian Americans make up majority of Ivy League graduates , usually best and the brightest but yet I never seen an Asian American head of any Fortune 500 snowflake!
@@izzyciLMAOOOOO european americans ???????
LMAOOO WHAT DID I JUST READ AHAHAHHAHAHAHA your comment logs are so funny 🤣
bruh relax & stop complaining about diversity. also, more than just white people live in europe, you shouldn’t act like a prejudiced bigot and an ignorant one
Its not worth having kids. Im glad i never did. I would never be a father.
I know that I would be a terrible father. I'm irresponsible as crap and my kids would hate me lol
@@Cipri What's sad is that some of these idiots would tell you to go ahead and have children anyways!
@@Ciprilol same
It's too expensive. It's not safe to be pregnant in the US. Having to go back to work 6wks after giving birth is inhumane. We don't separate DOGS from their moms that early, but American women are expected to drop their baby off at daycare and go back to work...or risk losing their job.
@c m doesn’t make it ok fool
@c m we know better and that is why we are not having kids.
@c m I don’t think it’s wise for me to have kids while I’m on the sex offender registry. I don’t live a normal life and my kids wouldn’t either. Sometimes you don’t know what people are going through. Life is already impossible while being subject to American sex offender registry laws.
@cm-qt9ir Actually the data shows people had way less kids during those times. Birth rates increased after those times and when the economy improved. (Baby boom happened after ww2, not during or before the war)
@cm-qt9ir Nope. Data shows birth rates were reduced during ww1. Demographic data shows the 1910s-1930s had lower birth rates. The silent generation was a smaller generation compared to GI generation and Baby Boomers. Yes, birth rates are lower now than during the 1930s, but there was a short period where birth rates decreased in the 1930s. They only increased right after WW2.
**waves arms around, broadly** I mean, look at the world
Me: *Looks out the window and sees a homeless man dancing* Seems pretty normal to me.
I've been knee-deep in this topic on CZcams for the past three days... This is by far the best comment I've seen from the trove of comment sections I've been through.
Why have kids if you can't afford a house to put them in.
People work longer hours, are more productive but get paid less and can barely afford to survive on their own with a single income
Simply put, we need more money
Maybe people also don't want to loose their kids in a school shooting.
Sick society if something always bother to have kids.
Oh lordy...
Considering gun violence is the number one killer of children now. Anyone can google it if they don't believe my statement.
@The Equilibriumist gun violence is the number 1 cause of death in children in this country 6 years running..
It is on a lot of people's minds and I've talked to people who have decided not to have kids because of the mass shootings and gun violence.
Are you living under a rock or something? We are 6 months into the year and there has been 285 mass shootings this year that's more than 1 a day why would people want to bring children into a environment like that.
It just dawned on me that your probably a republican and everything I said will go right over your head because your dumb enough to vote for a orange kool-aid drinker rapists.
lose*
Don’t Want children Freedom ❤
Your mother should have had the same mindset
@@ironbreaker772i would like it
@@ironbreaker772 Uh, then the comment would not have been made for you to reply to.
@@ironbreaker772I wouldn't mind not being born
To encourage women to have baby after baby without enough money, daycare or college is foolish. If we want lots of children just to stimulate our economy the plan will backfire and we'll breeding more homeless people.
Exactly. I bet you the same people who are crying about the US population decline don't support making life easier for people such as allowing student debt relief, daycare stipends, etc. They can spare me their fake outrage if they don't support measures to make life easier for people.
Everybody's to broke for babies
You mean "too" not "to". Edit your comment and re-post it so that the word "too" is spelled correctly!
~Dutch
@cm-qt9ir You mean "Too lazy". You need to capitalize "Too" since that's the first word of your sentence and you need to spell it correctly. It's "T-O-O" not just "T-O".
Edit your comment and re-post it so that "Too" is spelled correctly!
~Dutch
@@lustforkicks7392stfu ...who really cares ?
@cm-qt9ir Not everyone has money. Kids aren't free. 🙄
@c m Kids are expensive in developed world especially with inflation burning your savings people don’t have a lot of money to survive and pay for basic living needs how can they pay and take care of kids they aren’t free cost of raising a child in usa is 350,000 for 18 years of their lifetime people don’t make that kind of money even working hard for 18 years 😢
Yeah at 27 i got a vasectomy. Dont regret it. Never had a kid either.
Lol you neutered yourself like a dog. How weak. Darwinism I guess..
@@evanhughes1510
Vasectomy isn’t getting your nuts removed, honey. Try again. 😘
@@LucareonVee I realize that, but the effect is the same
@@evanhughes1510
Having no nuts means total inability to have sex. So no, the effect is not the same. 😘
GigaChad
I am so glad birth rates are decreasing no child deserves a world like this.
Good . Why bring more suffering into the world.
Raising kids is expensive.
Next caller...
Why would anyone who's actually sane want to have a child in the U.S.?! Smh
Sane people not having kids....?
No offense. But that should be the other way around.
Sane people works both ways.
Nah. Not “Why would anyone who's actually sane want to have a child in the U.S.?!” /
or anywhere else? for that matter.
"Why not having children in the wealthiest and most prosperous country in the world?"
"WE NEED MORE WAGE SLAVES OPPS I MEANT BABIES!!!"
💯💯💯💯
Who wants to bring a child into this messed up world? 🤷♀️
Plus, how many can't have children as well.
Exactly
People had babies in WWI, WWII, during slavery, civil wars ect.
@@Tomorrison28 Right and I’m sure they suffered for it
@@Christina_320 there is no ideal time to have kids. The world has always a mess, and never will be perfect.
Having babies during actual hard times is the norm historically. My opinion is people are not having babies because our young adults don't have the social skills and confidence to form and maintain relationships. This is due to technology and societal factors in my opinion.
I can't even afford McDonald's rn and I'm a manager at my job >_>
I'd need like 60k a year to even consider having a kid, not to mention the costly add on like childcare, school, heathcare cost...
Healcare *shudders*
60k after taxes your left with 40k and after rent your left 30k , you need more like 100k to even think about having 1 kid
@@adva501 I live on a fixed income of $19,000 per year. BidenHarris2024 ❄️🌎❄️
To be fair, McDonald's prices have gone up at a disgusting rate.
@@teoleno4019 I live on a fixed income of $19,000 a year & am saving 🆙 up to be poor. 😶
@@johnstallings4049 hope you can afford rent my friend and what you needs
Too expensive. By the time we can afford it we are too old to carry a baby to term.
Thank u!
Our culture is self correcting. Am I crazy for thinking I will have zero trouble buying a house in 30 years because there won’t be enough people?
Only these large powerful corporations will own them so yes you a lil crazy 😂😢
Yes you are crazy but it's pointless to explain it here in youtube. To summarize it really quickly: with less people the productiviy of the economy declines and everyone is poorer, including you.
@@TheFate23 You're absolutely right! a lot of people consume and that drives economies. Less people less consumption less economy less jobs lower opportunities hello great depression lol Every buddy is broke.
I'm not giving birth in no damn 40s. I'm retiring childfree and stress free! The birth rates ain't my problem. Blame the governments and how they treat woman!
I know that's right. Just fully retired at 52. Now I can do what I want for the next 30 years because I was smart enough not to have kids.
33 here and will be retiring overseas soon. Still looking for a place for me!!! Idc about this world once I'm dead and gone and have 0 interest feeding a ponzi scheme parasitic system!
@@Childfree334 watch your back because Will never stop targeting people like you
Amen ❤
Exactly. What women would want to have a child at this point?
No woman wants to be left destitute with mouths to feed! Let alone having to raise an adult child alongside their children😑 HARD PASS!
Duh!
I know that's right. I'm living comfortably alone.
Leave it to a black women to make this comment.. sheesh
Are you joking. It is MEN who have to risk it all now a days. The opposite sex literally has ALL the social programs and benefit of the doubt and are blameless. Nice try with the disinformation
Are you joking. It is MEN who have to risk it all now a days. The opposite sex literally has ALL the social programs and benefit of the doubt and are blameless. Nice try with the disinformation
Even if I could afford to have a kid, how do i get a date?
There's something that I think a lot of people are missing here: our working culture doesn't support having children. When we have to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week not including time off or weekends, there's simply not enough time to work around people's schedules to make lasting relationships and long-term family planning work PARTICULARLY when you may be punished for taking time off for that.
We ought to move to more leisurely society in which we work less, and have more time to make things work. I don't believe its just an issue of throwing money at people and then telling them "now make babies".
Tax incentives (similar to France's practices to prevent a complete collapse of its population) also help as plasters to a gaping wound. But that's the thing, those solutions are merely plasters on a gaping wound.
To be honest I'm glad the birth rate is down.... it'll give the earth a chance to recover.
😂 lol
Birds won't lay eggs unless they can afford to build a nest
So many adults can't even buy a house or get out of living paycheck to paycheck. Why would they want to have kids on top of that?
Thank u!
“Pay for it!”
That’s why.
News: explains in details why the birth rate is going down
Men : nah women did it, out here educating themselves instead of giving us babies.
😂😂😂😂
Nah, it's probably the hundred million abortions lol. Them babies got yanked cuz 😂
@@nonapplicable3055 Roe was overturned over a year ago. It’s not the abortions, women literally aren’t having seggs.
@@riareed1269 Prior to it being overturned, there were on average more than 600,000 abortions per year since the 90's. That's 18 million people, gone to save women from their own choices. That's why the birth rate is down. Not to mention planned B and condoms. Women of the modern West are having more sex than women in any recorded time in history.
@@nonapplicable3055 Good, there are too many parents out there who are completely incompetent anyway
@@purpleblack475 If I were uneducated and unintelligent I would probably come to the same conclusion. You believe that 9 billion is too many, and stopped the calculations there. People like you are the prime reason I believe in testing for the rights to vote.
Everyone poor and world pollution
This is great! I hope this trend continues!
Same.
Me to , no hope so no babies!
only to watch your taxes increasingly get higher to oay for the growing retired population
@@alberthoffman5297they would’ve went higher anyway
Ase. We are not feeding a ponzi scheme system until major corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. Starve the system.
Practically no one talks about this, yet you always hear about Japan’s declining birth rate. I was surprised to see that Japan and the US’ birth rate is almost identical.
USA accepts massive numbers of immigrants to replace the native population. Japan does not, so the effects of their ageing and shrinking population are far more noticable
@LucidFL mmm well europeans displaced the natives.....now the us is displacing those born of a non indigenous descent
Actually, Japan's birth rate is way lower than the US birth rate.
@@nativetexanful 1.4
@@nativetexanful 1.4 and us is 1.9 or 1.8
Covid-19, financial struggles, raising divorces, exorbitant cost of living; How can the average person afford to raise a child when they can barely afford to live on 2 jobs?
Finally some good news from USA
Teen parents is never good news
Tbh, people can talk all they want about how we need more babies and more families and more people. Nobody cares about solving the problem, only the symptoms. Miss me with the scare tactics.
Attempting to reverse significant demographic decline is like attempting to alter the trajectory of a very large Earth-bound asteroid: you have to start trying at least twenty years ago!
and call Bruce Willis
We need to repeal women's rights
I refuse to ever get married or have children.
I’m willing to get married, but children are an absolute no-go.
Aside from money concerns. The people in charge won't stop mass shootings.
OMG.....I am so glad to have had a hysterectomy at 27. No kids for me thanks!!!😅
Good
I’m seriously thinking about tying my tubes.. I don’t want any children
@@onyxjade5474I Wana burn mines. I don't want the chances of them being untied
Its sadly illigal in my country, but i wont give up on it
Reddit has a childfree section with a list of pro autonomy doctors.
When it's illegal in your country maybe plan a holiday abroad.
No its not education its the housing crisis that is effecting us. Its not possible to rent affordably while in school and working. You need to pay people like in Denmark for educating them self's so they can rent and start a family.
Denmark's birth rate is well below replacement also, and is in fact even lower than the US. Denmark's model did not work in increasing birth rates
@@thomasgrabkowski8283
Who cares if it doesn’t increase birth rates? It makes life better. 😎
And it weird that israel have Birthrate 3.1 ...even have same issue like united states 😂😂😂
Is better not having kids then see them on the news people abandoning them. Or being killed. Also is better hopefully young teens don't do stupid stuff, instead of enjoying life. Having kids is a Blessing or a curse. In the right time
Facts are facts. Kids are expensive, these analysts state that they ecomically will suffer from a falling birth rate. Middle class households say freakin awesome i can make that car payment and not go hungry.
No more tax-slaves, this is for the best.
Yup
It’s too effing expensive and people are tired of debt slavery! Mothers barely have paid maternity leave or time off to raise their children because employers/lawmakers/voters suck including government employers. Men don’t want to be functional fathers/husbands either. Those are the real reasons we stopped having children here.
There needs to be a decrease. It’s so overpopulated now and I don’t need to be contributing anymore to the capitalistic system
And this is why they're forcing women to have kids...
Yes
Bingo 💁♀️
as they should
@@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305no we only want to make sure that only the men who deserve to be fathers become so.
I said that from the get go
If a chicken lays an egg. Who considers it to get a benefit. The farmer
Tbh, I used to want a lot of kids now I’m good with 1 especially with how society is
The brutality of the economic marginalization of the 20-40 has gotten too out of control.
The ultra toxic fallout of Reaganomics.
Honestly, women are waking up and making sure we are financially independent before we get bogged down with a bunch of kids.
Not to mention that babies are like parasites and many women simply don't want it.
Babies are not parasites. Jesus!
Good for women!
We live in a Corporatocracy as evidenced by Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010). Having productive employees is more important than human reproduction in our society. This dynamic is playing itself out around the planet.
nobody wants to have kids, considering the expenses just living alone is costly.
Why would you ever want to have a kid in the US right now? I would only have children if I could have them in another country that actually would care about my baby.
The US is a grinder, and they're only looking for new babies to grind up in the machine that is capitalism. They don't actually care about the well being of babies in society.
There is little to no maternity or paternity leave and we're the only country that suffers from this, bank breaking healthcare costs, unaffordable housing, unhinged grocery costs, more 🔫 violence in public schools, our officials are so divided that nothing gets done, and there are little to no precautions to solve Global Warming.
Like, who would want to bring a child up in this vile mess? Especially if our adult population can't even keep their own head's above water. Its just being responsible really to not want to bring a child into poverty while the elderly members of society hoard a majority stake of the wealth.
Like, make things better for the middle class and we'll have kids. But you know the rich won't do it and would rather prefer a global collapse than give up even a bit of their wealth.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Why would a woman put themselves in a mental health crisis just to be a mother or wife for the matter
Enterprises: "We will not pay more, the labor cost is too high"
People: "If you don´t pays more we will not have children"
Enterprises: "We will not pay more"
People: "Then, no children, the end"
Goverment: "Arggg, there will be no future"
Everybody: " So be it!"
The end.
😕
Right, like why is extinction so bad? None of us will even be alive to see it!
Can you blame anyone? I live in a two person house hold. I’m making $15.50 and my husbands making $16 some thing. Our rent is $925 before utilities. Then we have gas money and groceries which keep going up. I have college loans and we have car loans. We either pay late or barley pay on time. Our fridge is so bare you’d wonder how we eat. The doctors visits for baby check ups before birth is crazy expensive. It’s 20-100k to take them home from the hospital. They charge you extra money to hold your baby after birth. We don’t have that kind of money. So no kids 🤷🏽♀️
So essential costs are perpetrating genocide
Keep it up guys. Dont bring children to hell. This is hell. Dont make innocent souls suffer!
that what the whole depopulation agenda is about
@@DevPythonUnityand? Tf is your point, demon.
@@ayamystic well, some pepole must not procreate so others can, its best when decide on their own not to have children,
@@DevPythonUnity No such thing exists.
No wants to pay child support or lose half of our life saving.
Enjoy dying alone then with nobody who loves you, and surrounded by no one, if that’s the path you desire.
@@evanhughes1510 I think most people would accept that. Nobody wants to be alone but it's wayyy more unbearable to be financially dependent
@@evanhughes1510 You can die that way with money or you can die that way divorced with half of your stuff stolen.
@@kevinsheth1936 when you’re divorced you still have kids, and later grandchildren as well. But When you never bother to get married and/or procreate in the first place, then you have no children or grandchildren around when you’re old and dying
@@evanhughes1510 now that is selfish!! To have kids because you don’t want to be alone when you age and need someone to take care of you. Go to a nursing home and just leave the planet 🌎 but don’t bring children in this crazy world without a good plan to ensure they will not be in a cycle of poverty. I think it’s a great thing that young people are thinking twice before having babies that they can not take care of. If the country needs them for economic growth, then pay for them, simple!!!!
Another reason: Why would a woman want to put that much risk to her life when mortality rate is so high and now women don't always have any healthcare if things go south. Half the US would rather just watch a woman and baby die.
Women aren’t having fewer children. The percentage of women having no kids has skyrocket. The percentage having 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 kids have remained the same, but 0 kids have increased dramatically.
Do you realize that some other percentage must suffer for the 0 children percentage to increase? I guess you never grasped grade school level math.
@@LucidFLand neither have the people who likes the OP's comment.
If I want to raise family...IT WON'T BE IN AMERICA!
It's all over the world, not just US.
Well yeah...the only people who continue breeding are those on assistance...kids are expensive and if I have extra money Id want to spend it on myself...I had 2 dogs once and that was enough..
The cost of having a child can run 10s of thousands of dollars, before you even start paying to support the child.
it is unaffordable for most people.
Lack of interest. It's not about money.
It's mainly about money.
I have lots of women acquaintances that have aspirations of being wives and mothers. It's expensive and good men are hard to find, especially as a traditional woman.
Why have kids if i can't even take care of them!?
Less births means better health, longer life expectancy and less deaths!
Honestly I can’t risk getting thrown out by getting pregnant. I’ve got too much going on and can’t afford a house lol
You know that if you got into a proper relationship with a man, it could reduce the housing price and allow for both of you to split what your have.
@@moisuomi who would want that these days?
@@dorothy6200 "🤤 ohhh durrr I think humans should die and everything should die because I want my lazy life to continue dirrrrrrr". Also plenty of people want to start a family these days and have to ability to. Do you want to restrict them from that?
@@moisuomi I only referred to myself and what I want in my comment. Everything else is not my problem. I refuse to get pregnant like an irresponsible selfish person. I will have kids when I’m ready for them. That’s far from lazy. It’s called having a brain.
@@dorothy6200 Fair enough. I assume you want to live out your 20s single semi-relaxed, then around your late 30s get into some kind of relationship, then have just one kid. Is my assessment accurate?
Because we can't afford them? Get real.
In other news, what connection do you make between the labor shortage and the restriction of immigration.
I'm 30 and my girlfriend, six years younger than me, is starting to pressure me into considering having a baby within the next year.
Help me...... I can't afford it!!!!
Leave and separate with ur gf now
Break up with her. Sounds like she’s using you for a child.
Just dump her completely. It's not worth ruining yourself financially for the rest of your life.
They forgot to mention that it will help the climate.
People can’t afford them.
Bad excuse. The poorest people in Africa are having kids..
Kids and everything else is expensive these days. I'm glad that I don't have any children.
@@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 yes and they also have different traditions and values that favor and flourish social cohesion compared to America where loneliness is an epidemic.
No one can
@@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 yeah and they're dead before two
20-24 you’re not a teenager you’re an adult 1:49
Who can afford them in the USA, everything's outrageously expensive
Too expensive to have kids / people these days too selfish also
@cm-qt9ir People stopped having kids right before those times. Research shows birth rates plummeted in the early 20th century. After the wars, people started having kids because resources and wealth was more freed up.
@c m
With 8 billion people in the world, global warming is going to make us wish we were living in those times.
@cm-qt9irStop reposting that comment all over the comment section, no one is going to be compelled to have kids and join you in your misery because of it🤡
Please provide 1 nonselfish altruistic reason to reproduce. I'll patiently wait.
@@trollingaway1012
I’d add to that request by saying that it should be a reason people actually give for reproducing.
USA is getting more expensive. Yes some women will wait until they are well establish to care for babies . The more the economy increases the less birthrate will be.
I have a coworker. His name is Tyrell. He has, I kid you not, a baby with five different women. it's no wonder he smokes other people's cigarette butts.
😂😂😂
Because money is worth more than family
Baby = upcoming taxpayer 🤡
My portfolio: Inverse retirement. 🤡
The economy sucks & I’m not bringing up a child in it. Plain & simple, that is it. I make 80k a year & it would be even difficult for me.
Aren’t we overpopulated anyway?
So I say good for people who want room/space for themselves
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Forgot to say “say”
Say this the person who lives in a country where the population density is 35 people per sqkm
Not every parent is going to be a good parent and it can't damage the child and the child can become a social liability. The present world has many crisis that makes having children not a viable option. People who truly want children and not just beget children through wanton and unprotected one-night stand can have children and have multiple children if they want, but the economic, social, and political conditions of US and the world are not optimistic.
People need to get a grip. The baby crisis is a *possible* economic crisis not some apocalyptic catastrophe. Yeah, the economy *might* take a hit in the future but people will adapt. Scare mongering isn't going to make people bang!
Not "people", but subhumans need to get a grip. i.e. conservatives.
It's just the government and rich elite that are terrified. They never discuss how these people should pay their fair share of taxes... they never discuss how they hoard money & resources... I say we starve them
Yes, the world and the economy will be just fine.
It's already happened with both Japan and South Korea. In fact, the economy will NOT adapt because there are fewer people in an economy based on infinite growth in all sectors, this includes birth rates. You also ignore the amount of money required to tend to a large, non-working elderly population.
For example, both Biden and Trump are old men whose brains are currently failing them. They can not operate in high-stress, high-attention environments. When you have more elderly people who are physically and more importantly mentally incapable of work, you have fewer able-fit people around to work on anything. Including the computers and robots meant to replace human labour in the future.
This is why the replacement rate is such a crucial figure in any species.
It is very idiotic to claim that "we can just adapt" or "this is just scaremongering" when you have an economy that's based on how many people are young, able-fit and ready to work in the first place.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE PRICE OF FORMULA 😮
Its expensive, its a terrible world, the quality of person isnt there anymore, and more people are getting procedures so they dont have kids so its only going to get worse.
likely bc it isn't safe
So you’re saying you are a coward? YOU PROBSBLY ALSO SUPPORT STOP SIGN AND RED LIGHT LAWS TOO. Shame on you
But you will borrow
I’m broke does it look like I got money to have a kid 🙄
Mgtow
And leave us women alone
Heck no, staying single.
Isn't that what most of you wanted? This will eventually lead to a dramatic drop in population when the older generation dies.
It’s exactly what we want.
@@LucareonVee that's what I said. 😆
@@666THEMARK666
Well, it’s what you asked. I confirmed it. 😘
@@LucareonVee it was rhetorical
@@666THEMARK666
Didn’t seem like it, but ok. 😘
Y’all going off of old head models (young girls having babies at 18-34 years old) now young girls are having babies 35 plus years old!
I believe a 70 yr old had twins about six months ago. There have been MANY 50 yr olds giving birth. Sooooooo.......
its called freedom and no one wants to give it up , especially at the cost and risks men pay for
Too much freedom is a bad thing
@@suptumberlumbertumberlumbe9305 nah 😁
no its called scoial engeneering, by ONZ, and other groups promoting depopulation
@@DevPythonUnity You need to go touch grass my guy. You have been hanging around too many weirdos that their nonsense rubbed off on you.