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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Chickie · F

Besides things people keep saying cost of living and inflation.

I am not surprised by this but only one person mentioned our autonomy getting taken away.

A lot of men are vocal about how they don't respect or value women which is why you see a mass of women not dating, like the 4B movement in S. Korea. People love to claim that women "in the old days" were better off but there's a good reason why there's a lot horror stories from housewives not being treated right back then, and still do this day. We seen what it did to ya'll then and we said no thanks.(Also the rise of "passport bros", incels, alpha men, and men who want women to be submissive. Sexism and misogyny is still a thing and there's a lot of pick me women out here)

The fact that everyone is implying that it's a woman's job to have babies is pathetic and shows no one learned nothing from this. I don't care if the birth rate is "at an all time low" it's not my problem, if humans go extinct then they just go extinct