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America’s fertility rate is hovering around historic lows, with approximately 1.6 births per woman over her lifetime. This is below the level needed to sustain the population, which is 2.1 births per woman.
“Our population will, in the not too distant future, start to decline,” said Melissa Kearney, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland. “That’s why this is an issue for governments and for the economy, and politicians are starting to pay attention.”
The economic implications of a shrinking population are broad. For example, fewer births mean fewer future workers to support programs like Social Security and Medicare, which rely on a healthy worker-to-retiree ratio.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/30/us-birth-rate-decline-outpaces-policy-response-raising-concerns.html
Children from single-parent families are more likely to have behavioral problems because they tend to lack economic security and adequate time with parents.
The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency reports that the most reliable indicator of violent crime in a community is the proportion of fatherless families.
All of your concerns have already been answered… well you either didn’t read my whole post or purposely ignored the sources.
Where did I say somebody should own a home, or people have to be in relationships. Forget about that it is simply a fact that one parent households lead to a higher chance of a young man going to prison. It is simply a fact that we have a low birth rate in the west, and that is a problem regardless of the amount of people we have in the country today that is going to be a problem for the future if it keeps…. There is no fear mongering otoh it’s acknowledging the facts and the data on the ground.
With respect if you make another post where you say “show the proof” I’m not responding to it. Sources have been posted multiple times.
Professor Scott Galloway(hardly a right winger) has cited how much more difficult it is to climb up the economic ladder in America today compared to 20, 30 or 40 years ago. This has to do with the astronomically high cost of college, for example….also another probably points out which is a social one is the rise of the negative aspects of social media people staring at their phones all day. A lot of young men have AI girlfriends for example….thats simply unhealthy.
It would help if we look at the United States had so much success in the middle of the 20th century. You can get a great job right out of high school in those days. We had a lot less cultural issues like the mass school shootings, which is an absolute abomination. Nobody can try and blow that off as something that happens rarely. Oh no, the fact that it happens in the modern era is disgraceful. It is the most evil thing one can imagine. And also mass shootings in general are happening hundreds of times per year in the modern USA when they used to two or three times a year in the American past.
Hunger Games economy'
The top 10% of earners, households that generate around $250,000 in annual income or more, now account for 49.7% of all consumer spending, the highest level since 1989, according to Moody’s Analytics data cited by The Wall Street Journal. Thirty years ago, this cohort accounted for just 36% of total consumer spending.
'Hunger Games economy': Scott Galloway says top 10% have 'exceptional' opportunities while others are on track for 'slow death' — blasts US system that turns rich kids into billionaires
NYU professor describes a "winner-take-most" environment.
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