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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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Heartlander · 80-89, M
How do we in the US compare to our European look-alikes? It seems like Europeans were ahead of us on this.

In both places it seems like women joining the workforce moved our social orders from family centered to individual centered, and with that the cost of family doubled. Two autos instead on one, eating out rather than eating at home, more and better convenient appliances, etc. And once on that track a pullback is difficult.