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Why aren't Americans having more babies ?

US fertility rate crashes to historic low as America heads for 'population crisis' by 2050.
The fertility rate in the US has plunged to another new low, with fewer women than at any point in history having children.
The rate was 54.5 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44 years old) last year, a three percent fall compared to 56 in 2022.
The number of babies born in the US also declined year-over-year, with just under 3.6million live births in 2023.
At the same time, immigration is soaring, with a record 2.6million immigrants coming to the US legally in 2022, and up to 14million people when accounting for illegal migration.
Experts say the US is headed for a so-called 'underpopulation crisis' by 2050, when too few people are born to support its current economic system.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13761685/US-fertility-rate-crashes-historic-low-America-underpopulated.html
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The life style for the American isn't about having multiple children and building a huge family? That ended when you no longer needed cheap labor, some lived some died. Moving forward into history agriculture has moved to automated John Deere tractors and everyone wanting at some point to live in the big city, enjoying life or being tied down to a 12 hour a day Job. Either way they have no time or financial resources for having children. Certain religions in America almost insist on a large family such as the LDS, the Catholics have abandoned it
Large families in America now has turned to the poor that rely on federal assistance to take care of the children they have