{"id":2596260,"date":"2026-04-28T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-wont-have-a-country-unless-they-have-sex-and-babies\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:19:55","slug":"americans-wont-have-a-country-unless-they-have-sex-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-wont-have-a-country-unless-they-have-sex-and-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Opting Out Of Sex And Babies Is A National Crisis"},"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\">22<\/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%2Famericans-wont-have-a-country-unless-they-have-sex-and-babies%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=2596260&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--><p>Former republican Sen.Ben Sasse argues that Americans have become socially and technologically distracted from core human goals-especially having sex and having children-and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-presses-supreme-court-to-end-men-only-draft\/\" title=\"ACLU Presses Supreme Court to End Men-Only Draft\">falling birth rates<\/a> are a warning sign of broader social decline. The piece links this concern to historical warnings from figures like Theodore Roosevelt and even ancient Greek writer Polybius, who attributed low fertility to cultural and moral shifts such as declining desire to marry and limited willingness to raise children.<\/p>\n<p>It than cites various data points to suggest these trends are real and ongoing: young adults report low levels of dating, adults (especially ages 18-64) are having weekly sex less often than in the past, marriage rates remain near record lows, and many people who don\u2019t have children say they simply don\u2019t want them or prefer focusing on career and personal interests. The argument is that convenience and short-term personal fulfillment are replacing family-building, even though that choice may harm long-term national stability and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>The article further claims that as U.S. fertility stays low, other parts of the world have higher birth rates, meaning population aging and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >labor shortages increasingly depend<\/a> on immigration. It argues that efforts to restrict immigration are fragile,and predicts that if U.S. birth rates don\u2019t rise, demographic change will eventually reshape the country\u2019s culture-contending that a nation that does not reproduce cannot sustain itself as it is.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve stopped having sex!\u201d former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bethanyshondark\/status\/2048928152450150726?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out<\/a> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very weird. I don\u2019t have a phone on me, but that we carry around these super devices in our pockets that have distracted us from some of the most fundamental human activities and aspirations: having a baby is a bet on the future,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a new observation; in fact, it\u2019s not merely an observation, it\u2019s a warning of a civilization emergency. An emergency that has plagued the United States and other civilizations throughout history.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Roosevelt <a href=\"https:\/\/postcardhistory.net\/2022\/02\/teddy-roosevelt-and-race-suicide\/\">warned<\/a> in 1901 that \u201cAll the problems before us in this country \u2026 are as nothing compared with the problem of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-population-conundrum-will-next-generation-have-grandchildren\/\" title=\"US ... Dilemma: Future Generations and Grandchildren\">diminishing birth rate<\/a> and all that it implies.\u201d He saw low fertility among Americans as an existential threat to the continuity of the country itself.<\/p>\n<p>Before Roosevelt it was <a href=\"https:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Roman\/Texts\/Polybius\/36*.html\">Polybius<\/a>, who wrote in his book <em>Histories<\/em> that Greece was suffering a self-inflicted birth rate crisis. Polybius diagnosed the cause as a cultural and moral shift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth-rate and a general decrease of the population. \u2026 For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sasse himself made the same observation about the cause, that is, prosperity is seemingly breeding selfishness, which is leading to a decline in birth rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost everywhere in the world \u2014 and the world is richer and richer and richer statistically than it\u2019s ever been \u2014 people have decided, \u2018Eh, actually babies are kind of an inconvenience.\u2019 Babies have always been an inconvenience and the most glorious thing you can do to enrich your family and to make a bet on the future,\u201d Sasse said. \u201cHow weird that we\u2019ve stopped having sex, we\u2019ve stopped making babies, we\u2019ve decided being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time \u2014 not if you\u2019re a full human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Data shows such diagnoses are accurate. <\/p>\n<p>A 2026 study by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/todays-young-adults-are-in-a-dating-recession\">Institute for Family Studies<\/a> found that only about 31 percent of young adults said they were actively dating, while 74 percent of young women and 64 percent of young men \u201chad not dated or dated only a few times in the last year.\u201d And, to Sasse\u2019s point, adults ages 18-64 simply aren\u2019t having as much sex as they were. The General Social Survey <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/the-sex-recession-the-share-of-americans-having-regular-sex-keeps-dropping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shows weekly<\/a> sex among adults 18-64 plunged to 37 percent in 2024, down by nearly 20 percentage points from 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage rates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/29\/style\/marriage-decline-delay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit a 140-year low<\/a> around 2019 and have remained near historic lows since, with 25 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/record-high-number-40-year-olds-us-never-been-married-study-finds\">40-year-olds<\/a> having never married in 2021 compared to just 6 percent in 1980. The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/opinion\/gen-z-dating-clavicular.html\">reported<\/a> that Gen Z and young Millennials show high rates of having never dated or had relationships at all. <\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2024\/07\/25\/the-experiences-of-u-s-adults-who-dont-have-children\/\">Pew Research polling<\/a> shows that the top reason for not having children is as simple as \u201cI just don\u2019t want to\u201d and \u201cI want to focus on other things,\u201d like career and personal interests. In fact, childless adults report that not having kids has made career success easier and social life better. To Sasse\u2019s point, people are treating children as an \u201cinconvenience\u201d not worth taking on because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-christianitys-decline-might-have-stalled-will-it-reverse\/\" title=\"U.S. Christianity&#039;s Decline Might Have Stalled. Will It Reverse?\">short-term gratification<\/a> from career success and personal hobbies feels more rewarding \u2014 despite the decision robbing a civilization of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-congress-to-pass-spending-plans-after-manchin-opposes-democrats-massive-3-5t-bill\/\" title=\"Biden Pushes Congress To Pass Spending Plans After Manchin Opposes Democrats\u2019 Massive .5T Bill\">long-term prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But as Roosevelt warned in 1901 \u2014 and as remains true today \u2014 this decline is among the greatest problems our country faces. So what did he mean by that? Well, as Pat Buchanan <a href=\"https:\/\/unewsonline.com\/2002\/01\/buchananviewsforebodingfuture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in <em>Death of the West<\/em>, \u201cFirst world nations are dying. They face a mortal crisis, not because of something happening in the Third World, but because of what is <em>not<\/em> happening at home and in the homes of the First World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s happening in the Third World is they\u2019re having sex and children at far higher rates than in the United States (though Third World countries have also seen fertility rates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/08\/15\/5-facts-about-global-fertility-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decline<\/a>). They\u2019re doing what Americans <em>aren\u2019t<\/em> doing. A country that does not reproduce cannot sustain itself, Buchanan continued. Employment needs in particular demand workers, and as Americans become a dying breed, such shortages must be filled. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a point made by The Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/report\/fertility-the-united-states-below-replacement#:~:text=It%20is%20often%20said%20that%20replacement%20fertility,reproductive%20age%20and%20changes%20in%20female%20mortality.\">Jonathan Abbamonte<\/a>, who wrote that \u201cwithout a substantial increase in fertility, the United States will continue to be increasingly dependent on immigration to slow down population ageing and prevent population contraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Americans delay or entirely avoid marriage and children, Third-World foreigners, many of whom have entered this country illegally, are having babies. Efforts to slow mass migration and preserve American culture\u00a0\u2014 such as those taken by the Trump administration to limit the admission of foreigners into the country (and therefore stemming their ability to reproduce here) \u2014 are fragile. Democrats have promised to reverse Trump\u2019s immigration policies, and it\u2019s likely Americans will see waves of mass Third-World migration if Democrats return to office.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are choosing wealth, comfort, and personal freedom over the responsibility of building families and repopulating the country. The tradeoff in the short term may feel good: more money and time and fewer obligations. But nations are not sustained on short-term gratification. As Buchanan warned, a nation that does not reproduce cannot sustain itself. And if that void is filled by Third-World foreigners with vastly different customs, cultures, histories, languages, and religions, America will not remain America. <\/p>\n<p>Over time, America will begin to resemble the places those populations came from. In fact, the very conditions that allow Americans to choose affluent living and money and individual \u201cprosperity\u201d over children and family are ironically the product of a particular culture, people, and set of values \u2014 or in short: <em>Americans<\/em> and American babies filling those shoes with each generation cycle.<\/p>\n<p>If Americans do not have children, America will not remain American, and none of the extra money or time that Americans have gained by putting off children will count for much.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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