A new CDC report shows the U.S.birth rate hovering near the record low. Dr.Thoại Ngô, a population scientist, told 60 Minutes Overtime what the data means and how the U.S. government could respond to help couples who want children.
  • Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    As someone who never wants kids, there are several legitimate reasons US people who would otherwise have kids aren’t doing so.

    The economy already sucks but the future is looking quite terrible, republicans are constantly waging war on public schools, no paid paternity or maternity leave on top of increasingly shit wages, more and more folks are isolating themselves, leading to less people willing to date or becoming undateable, etc. Not to mention the complete lack of awareness pro-birth politicians have. Trying to force an increase in births, and thinking that the only reason folks aren’t having kids is because of the radical left attacking family values.

    • msprout@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      My MAGA / Q-ANON mom said she wanted to run for school board to prevent trans kids from using litter boxes. Mind you, her last kid (me) left that high school in 2006. I asked her what a school board director does, and she got mad at me because she didn’t know.

      Like if you’re a parent just trying to make a good childhood for your kid, how do you even fight bored boomers like this? They have no dog in the fight, nothing to lose, and worst of all, nothing to do. That is just so dangerous.

      I was raised with civic resources, and they wanna pull the damn ladder up behind them. Despicable.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I mean I recently decided I wasn’t going to bring a life form that I sure as fuck will love more than anything into this world, because subjecting them to the sanity-destroying levels of gleeful, wanton cruelty that our society apparently enjoys would be an act of supreme malice, and I could not live with that.