{"id":1936299,"date":"2023-05-23T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fertility-rates-are-doomed-so-youve-got-to-do-your-part\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T19:41:28","slug":"fertility-rates-are-doomed-so-youve-got-to-do-your-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fertility-rates-are-doomed-so-youve-got-to-do-your-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Act now to combat declining fertility rates."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffertility-rates-are-doomed-so-youve-got-to-do-your-part%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Why Falling Fertility Rates Are a Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-now-says-it-will-allow-families-to-have-three-children-amid-fears-of-population-crash\/\" title=\"China Now Says It Will Allow Families To Have Three Children Amid Fears Of Population Crash\">total <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/demographers-warn-of-epochal-fall-in-fertility-across-the-globe\/\" title=\"Demographers Warn Of \u2018Epochal Fall In Fertility\u2019 Across The Globe\">fertility rate<\/a><\/a> in the U.S. went down from a fairly robust 2.12 in 2007 to an anemic 1.64 in 2020. Remember, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fertility-rates-are-doomed-so-youve-got-to-do-your-part\/\" title=\"Act now to combat declining fertility rates.\">minimum viable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-birth-rate-falls-another-four-percent-to-lowest-level-in-nearly-a-century\/\" title=\"US Birth Rate Falls Another Four Percent To Lowest Level In \u2018Nearly A Century\u2019\">replacement rate<\/a><\/a> is 2.1 kids per woman, which gets you just enough people to outweigh the number we lose naturally. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avma.org\/resources-tools\/reports-statistics\/us-pet-ownership-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over 38% of households have at least one dog<\/a>. [Only] 30% of households have at least one child,\u201d according to the American Veterinary Medical Foundation. The replacement rate is now too low to sustain the population in every Western country, and it\u2019s dropping fast everywhere. By 2100, the fertility rate of nearly every nation on Earth is projected to fall below the replacement rate, even below 1.5 children per woman.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it happening? Microplastics? Pollution? Lower sperm counts? Wearing tight pants? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has nothing to do with sperm counts or the usual things that come to mind when discussing fertility. Instead, it is being driven by more women in education and work, as well as greater access to contraception, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-53409521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leading to women choosing to have fewer children<\/a>,\u201d the BBC says. If the history books told the truth, feminism would beat out Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler as the most successful genocider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fanatics like Jill Filipovic are girlbossing themselves straight into swift genetic suicide, and they\u2019re taking all of us down with them. Her powers have grown so great that she has transcended labels like \u201cwine aunt\u201d and \u201cgirl boss.\u201d She now bestrides the Earth as the Final Wine Boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>The Consequences of Falling Fertility Rates<\/h3>\n<p>A terrifying 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/article\/S0140-6736(20)30677-2\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> in The Lancet projects that the global number of children under 5 will fall from 681 million in 2017 to just 401 million by 2100. Meanwhile, the number of people over 80 will increase from 141 million in 2017 to 866 million by 2100. Social Security and Medicare solvency? That\u2019s so 1990. Brace yourself, Grandpa!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study concludes with this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Our findings suggest that continued trends in female educational attainment and access to contraception will hasten declines in fertility and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/independent-michigan-redistricting-commissioner-actually-a-bernie-bro\/\" title=\"\u2018Independent\u2019 Michigan Redistricting Commissioner Actually a Bernie Bro\">slow population growth<\/a>. A sustained TFR [total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US fertility rate dropped from 2.12 in 2007 to 1.64 in 2020, below the minimum replacement rate of 2.1. 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