Kids Aren't Cheap - But That's Not Why Aren't Having Them - Demographic Winter Report #11

  

 

Issue # 11     July 11, 2024

 

Reporting on How Rapidly Falling Fertility Affects Humanity

 

1. Kids Aren’t Cheap. That doesn’t fully explain why we’re ambivalent  about having them –

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/june-web-only/children-ambivalence-anastasia-berg-rachel-wiseman.html – a review of the book “What Are Children for? On Ambivalence and Choice,” in Christianity Today, June 12, 2024 – “Where once having children was ‘just what people did,’ Berg and Wiseman write, now it is something we feel we must ‘weigh against a sea of other options,’ many of them at least superficially easier, more pleasurable, less risky, and simpler to do.”

 

2. Americans Shrug Over Falling Birthrate -- https://www.newsweek.com/us-birth-rate-decline-opinion-poll-1900297#:~:text=A%20third%20(34%20percent)%20of,females%20surveyed%20said%20the%20same.&text=The%20percentage%20of%20Americans%20wanting,of%20concern%20over%20falling%20birthrates. in Newsweek, May 15, 2024 – A poll shows that “while 58% showed some level of apprehension, only 16% said they were very concerned about the ongoing drop in people being born.” This is so probably because no one explained to them the cataclysmic consequences of Demographic Winter.

 

3. ‘Get Married’ and ‘Family Unfriendly’ Review: The Case for Wedlock Two spirited volumes take aim at the difficulties—and the cultural attitudes—that have discouraged couples from getting married and having kids. ‘Get Married’ and ‘Family Unfriendly’ Review: The Case for Wedlock - WSJ You need to be a Wall Street Journal subscriber to access this article.

 

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