Economy

Demeter

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35. This is totally ass-backwards

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:24 AM

Jun 2013

Women opt for pregnancy in downturns, figuring they might as well pursue the family goals while the economic ones are out of reach...and before they lose medical coverage.

AND it takes 9 months.

This is a lagging indicator that the economy is in the toilet. Women gave up waiting for Obama and Co. to do anything.

It takes a REAL DEPRESSION to depress birthrates for an extended period....Is this a confession that it was much worse than anyone was willing to officially admit? Where is the WPA, the infrastructure rebuilding, etc.?

5 years, eh? Did they track it against age and quantity of potential mothers? Or is this another attempt to paint over an ugly picture? After all, one can only delay childbearing for so long, before the window of fertility closes for good.

I hate articles like these. They cloud the real issues with their cheerleading.

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