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Warpy

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33. WaPo said as low as the 1930s

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed May 5, 2021, 01:11 PM

May 2021

and I believe it. People who aren't sure they're going to be able to feed themselves or have a place to live are not going to be having children. College enrollment is also down, people looking at a massive debt load with no guarantee to the kin of job they'd need to pay it off and saying "no thanks."

Reagan's Great Rip Off is in its end stage, the plutocracy poised to become aristocracy and pushing for a dictator of their choosing.

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U.S. fertility dips to its lowest rate since the 1970s [View all] brooklynite May 2021 OP

Here come the vaccine blamers soothsayer May 2021 #1

Um, this data is from 2020...vaccines didn't exist. brooklynite May 2021 #2

I don't think that matters to anti vaxxers. LisaL May 2021 #3

Exactly this soothsayer May 2021 #15

Probably wont keep them from blaming. They're not devoted to facts. NT enough May 2021 #4

There's a time machine in that injected microchip. Obviously. (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #16

Lol for real Unwind Your Mind May 2021 #23

'It Reaches Zero In 2045': Scientist Makes Startling Prediction About Sperm Counts NotHardly May 2021 #20

The hypothesis for The Handmaid's Tale. nt Wednesdays May 2021 #24

Any studies on ova? Marthe48 May 2021 #31

All those anti-immigrant Republicans haven't made the connection between immigrants Lonestarblue May 2021 #5

BINGO! modrepub May 2021 #21

Not to worry, Trump and the GOP did their best to solve the Social Security crisis by... LudwigPastorius May 2021 #30

+1. Or immigrants and the housing boom dalton99a May 2021 #35

Seems like lots of babies for those 14 and under, multigraincracker May 2021 #6

I don't know how you got that from the article. LisaL May 2021 #8

It is what is not in the article I was looking at. N/T multigraincracker May 2021 #10

So you assumed based on no information? LisaL May 2021 #14

There is some evidence of this. multigraincracker May 2021 #18

That, however, is an article from May 2020 reporting the 2019 figures muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #19

Decline by choice? Deciding to have smaller families? Freethinker65 May 2021 #7

Putting off having a baby until employment is secure, perhaps (or not) muriel_volestrangler May 2021 #17

Bars were closed. twodogsbarking May 2021 #9

everything we eat, drink and breathe is so adulterated mdbl May 2021 #11

On the mark comment. twodogsbarking May 2021 #12

+1 appalachiablue May 2021 #29

We might have a baby boom after COVID IronLionZion May 2021 #13

I wouldn't be surprised. Steelrolled May 2021 #34

Personally, I can't imagine birdographer May 2021 #22

I feel the same way. Mickju May 2021 #25

+1 flibbitygiblets May 2021 #26

good. we need massively lower population if we expect to survive much longer. bullimiami May 2021 #27

Absolutely! Most if not all earth's problems will resolve without stupid humans screwing things up PortTack May 2021 #28

More concerning to me is... LudwigPastorius May 2021 #32

WaPo said as low as the 1930s Warpy May 2021 #33

20% lower, actually. peppertree May 2021 #37

No. The fertility rate is the lowest ON RECORD. peppertree May 2021 #36

Thanks for the info, and in your #37 above too 😂 n/t progree May 2021 #38

You're welcome peppertree May 2021 #39