How sad:
From:
https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/us-birthrate-continues-to-plummet-led-by-hispanics/
US birthrate continues to plummet, led by Hispanics
"“Millenials,” that generation born between maybe 1980 and 2000?, is rapidly coming of age. This group of special snowflakes who got trophies for showing up and were always told how awesomely awesome they all were, each and every one!, is having great deal of difficulty even bothering to conceive. Birthrates for millenial-group whites are nearing European levels, if projections hold – less than 1.4 live births per woman per lifetime. Even Hispanics, long the only cohort keeping the US fertility rate near replacement levels, are plummeting – faster, in fact, than any other group. Apparently these Catholic immigrants aren’t staying Catholic very long once they reach this country:
In a new report, the Urban Institute think tank writes that in 2012, there were only 948 births per 1,000 women in their 20s, “by far the slowest pace of any generation of young women in U.S. history.” In 2007, the rate was 1,118 births per 1,000. The decline in births was largest among Hispanic women, at 26 percent, followed by black women, at 14 percent, and an 11 percent drop for white women…….
…….For white women, though, the story was very different: “81 percent of the decrease in fertility is attributable to declining marriage rates.” (Granted, white women were less likely to be single mothers to begin with.) All the single ladies of countless Internet essays are, indeed, staying unhitched—and they’re not having kids as a result.
The report authors say they don’t know whether Millennial women will eventually catch up in childbearing like women who lived through past recessions did.
The data is really stunning. A 15% drop in fertility rate in just 5 years?!? I don’t know if that’s happened anytime since the implosion of traditional culture called the 1960s/early 70s. And Latinas dropped my over 25%!!
The entire Western socialist welfare state, including the American one, is a ponzi scheme predicated on constantly increasing population. Not just increasing population, but each succeeding generation must be larger than its predecessor, and by no small amount. Otherwise, we’ll all have to pay sky-high taxes, productivity will plummet, and prolonged economic recession/depression a la France since 1975 will set in. Well……here we are. The millenial generation is 15-20 million smaller than the preceding “Gen X,” and whatever Madison Ave decides to call those following the millenials will be even smaller. But we already know this.
No country and no culture has survived an extended period of voluntary low birthrates. These periods have spelled the death knell for civilizations in ancient Greece, Rome, China, India, and elsewhere. When a culture runs so out of energy and care for the future that it can’t even bother to reproduce itself, it’s not long for the world. I don’t know how long this culture of ours has left, but eventually something’s going to break, and break big – government, economy, culture – or, most likely, all three.
Don’t mean to be a downer but this is really unprecedented. Yes machines and technology can make us some of the difference but not on the scale we’re seeing, where the number of little humans being born today around the world is literally 1/4-1/3 what is was 50 years ago. Unprecedented doesn’t even begin to describe it.
So…….pick your poison, persecution or collapse. Either way, not so fun.
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