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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anythingoes477 · M

For those more inclined to understand issues like what a crashing birthrate means to the future of the U.S.....and less inclined to be politically radicalized racists.............this is a serious issue and it why the government does not and has not cared all that much about illegal immigration since the Reagun years. If the U.S. birthrate does not increase......we will end up like China is today. A country of zero workers and zero population between babies and 70 year olds.

Immigrants......especially Latino immigrants have larger families............high birth rates. This birthrate offsets the decreasing birthrate of Americans.....to keep the overall population of youth vs older people at an even rate in the U.S. This ensures a future military.....a future workforce........a constant flow of working people to pay into taxes for the country.....continued funding of Social Security and Medicare.

Republicans...especially racists trumpers think immigrants is the end of society...........because of short sighted stupidity. In reality immigration is the solution to the low birthrate in America.