Nine Months After Lockdowns, U.S. Births Plummeted by 8%

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) -- Nine months after the declaration of a national emergency due to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. births fell by 8% in a month.

The December drop marked an acceleration in declines in the second part of the year. For the full year, the number of babies born in the country fell 4% to about 3.6 million, the largest decline since 1973, according to a Wednesday report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The latest data are early evidence of the drastic impact from the health crisis on birth rates, with the full effect expected to show in 2021 data.

Births have generally been on the decline in the years since the Great Depression, as Americans have been getting married later and putting off having kids. That’s only grown more pronounced during the pandemic, as people feared going to hospitals and lacked nearby family support because of lockdown restrictions. ..........(more)

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/nine-months-after-lockdowns-u-s-births-plummeted-by-8

[2naSalit]

1. Good!

[vercetti2021]

2. Fine by me

The less kids on this planet the better. Not only is it selfish but this planet can't hold that many more people

[lagomorph777]

6. Yup.

[PortTack]

7. Absolutely..resources are already stretched too far

[mitch96]

3. "U.S. Births Plummeted by 8%" People don't want to go to work!!! It's un 'Merican I tell you!!

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[Bucky]

9. Well then what in the hell WERE all those unemployed people doing?

[mitch96]

11. "what in the hell WERE all those unemployed people doing?"....... Sure as hell not fookin...nt

[barbtries]

14. eating.

watching youtube videos, and hating on each other.

[Bucky]

16. 😆

Oh too too true!

(thanks, I needed that laugh)

[hunter]

17. Falling asleep together on the sofa on a Netflix binge is not the same as having sex.

[barbtries]

18. lol

netflix and snore.

[barbtries]

4. i predicted a baby boom.

not so much. I think my great niece is the only family member i'm aware of who got pregnant during lockdown, and that was in AR so it probably doesn't count anyway.

[Hugin]

5. I thought there might be a boom as well.

Then again, maybe this is evidence the distancing and isolation protocols were being observed.

I know the only member of my extended family in the baby zone was being extremely fastidious. All of that energy was being redirected toward self improvement to great effect I might add. Now, however, the mating dance is back in full swing and is going better than ever. So, maybe a break was a good thing in this instance.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, maybe the stress

[Bucky]

12. There was a murder boom.

Homicides were up nation-wide by about 15%. Suicides dropped by about 1% or 2%

[barbtries]

13. sigh.

we're such a fucked up nation. it's way beyond anything i ever anticipated witnessing in my lifetime.

[Bucky]

15. We watched too much Star Trek

I always imagined the future would be dignified, logical, and libertarian. Well, the future has arrived and it's like going to Paris for a honeymoon and getting mugged by street toughs.

[seaglass]

19. You may still be right, this data is 9 months exactly after the lockdowns started when there was

so much uncertainty.

I bet the marriage rates dropped too because so many people had to cancel their weddings.

In any case, my daughter had our first grandchild in May - she was at a birthday party two weeks ago with a friend who had a 1 week old and another a 2 month old. Our close friends also had their first grandchild in May. Maybe there will be a boom in 2022 to make up for the deficit.

So, I'll wait until the data comes for birth rates through the end of this September and maybe through 2022 to conclude anything.

[malthaussen]

10. Hmm, that little factoid could fuel all kinds of fun speculation...

... my original thought was that it was counter-intuitive, but perhaps I'm too naive.

-- Mal