US Birthrate Continues to Decline

[JohnDB]

Or it's just a shift in the way humans operate. My theory is people are becoming more independent and we are seeing it.

But people are not made to be independent....
Never has been or ever will be part of the design model.

Cant use a pocket knife to chop down a tree 3feet in diameter....sure you can whittle a bit of wood off but it's not going to come down by wintertime.

People cannot be independent....even introverts need others....just a smaller list of others than an extrovert uses. Even grumpy old hermits living in the woods all by themselves need other people...even though they dont want to.

It is not right, good, correct, for people to live alone.

 

[initforme]

But people are not made to be independent....
Never has been or ever will be part of the design model.

Cant use a pocket knife to chop down a tree 3feet in diameter....sure you can whittle a bit of wood off but it's not going to come down by wintertime.

People cannot be independent....even introverts need others....just a smaller list of others than an extrovert uses. Even grumpy old hermits living in the woods all by themselves need other people...even though they dont want to.

It is not right, good, correct, for people to live alone.

Every person is different. My 3 kids are much happier divorced. All of them. And I as their father cannot be happier they are divorced from their awful marriages. So divorce can be a great great thing.

 

[JohnDB]

Every person is different. My 3 kids are much happier divorced. All of them. And I as their father cannot be happier they are divorced from their awful marriages. So divorce can be a great great thing.

Well....
Only 30% of all cohabitations and marriages (combined) ever actually survive long term.

Mostly because people have bad habits of trying to have control over a spouse. (Trying to keep them from leaving they cause them to leave)
Also women have the upper hand in a divorce....and its become all too common for women to marry men for their money and then to divorce them for their future earnings.

Pre-nuptual agreements are a MUST these days....not just a good suggestion....a necessity.

Men especially do not want to cause pregnancies when the future is seen as unstable.
And a fussy wife? Prime example of instability. (Men are incapable of determining the real, root cause of "fussy"...so this is all I can say on the matter)
So are: Unemployment, underemployment , Job change/transfer, housing costs, insufficient medical care or finances for it....

For women...
Erratic behavior from the men in the form of excessive drinking/chemical dependency, jail time due to rage/fighting, incarceration, insolvency due to lack of career/job.....and let's not forget the ever popular hygiene issues. (Smell is everything) fresh sweat good....old sweat bad. And some popular colognes....ugggghhhhh....nope!

Also for men....
90% would rather die alone than be married to a woman who has birthed another man's child.