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When I was born, the human population was around half of what it is now. If there ever was a time to organically decrease our population size, imo, it would be now.
Brace yourselves for the pedophile parasite class campaign to justify their crimes
Aren't these the people who freaked out about teenage pregnancies?
They're Republicans. Of course they are concerned about teen pregnancies.
Who do you think is making them pragernet?
They were angry about “single mothers” for decades, but that was a racist dog whistle.
If you’re all white, it’s all right.
In a normal country, a doctor endorsing teen pregnancy would get their licence suspended.
This just reminds me of a US coworker of mine who just became a great grandmother. It's teen pregrancies all the way down. Mother at 16, grandmother in her 30s, great grandmother at 50.
How embarrassing
She's pretty proud of it.
She’s either super cool or super annoying. Former teen moms don’t really have an in-between. since she's in tech i'm assuming super cool.
Walmart or Dollar Store?
Tech
How many times do conservatives have to prove that they're all pedophiles before the rest of us will learn?
not a matter of "learning", it's a matter of "caring"
everyone knows by now this regime is full of pedophiles… but nobody gives enough of a fuck to do anything about it
I'm not talking about the regime. I mean every last one of them.
Abstinence education is working! How are they not happy at their success?
15-19 yr olds aren’t supposed to be having kids.
In a regular society? Yes. But this is America we're talking about.
Hell some of them ARE kids
From my perspective, everyone under about 24 is still a kid.
They're saying the quiet part out loud and why they're anti-abortion. The younger the better for a quick turnaround:
They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.
I frequently just stand outside and look at the sky and think, yep, we weren't meant to work all day. We were meant to pick berries and mushrooms and take naps. I feel better about my station in life, knowing those oligarchs can never be satisfied, and all I have to do to feel right is take a walk outside.
Fucking lemongrab grade screeching of purity and abstinence for decades and then suddenly this
Now, now, let's not pretend these people are encouraging sex, those young whores are still to be shamed.
They're just supposed to have kids and be loyal to husbando. No pleasure involved.
(Also, they always supported teen pregnancy because they have always been anti-sex education and anti-contraceptive which allows the process of teenage parents to happen without them having to condone it).
I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country. Now the same right wing moralizers are saying they need those teen moms again. But this time it's about money so they are noticeably quiet about morality.
I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country.
before that it was commonplace though. I'm 61, my grandmother started having her kids at 16, she had 8, one of them my mother, the youngest of her kids. Many of her friends were similarly 15-19 having thier first kid. My mother was 19 with me, I was born when she turned 20. She had 3 kids, i have none, my sister none and my brother 2, so family dynamics have changed.
This is Australia though, you can read books of some of the early convict ships coming over and they arrived with all the 13-16yr old girls pregnant, or having had their kid on board and being married etc
You can see some of the effect in The Philippines, pregnant teen mothers are everywhere. Religious indoctrination in regards anti contraception doesn't stop teens fucking (and this in a nation with no divorce)
I distinctly remember a time when boomers and talking heads would automatically respond to concerns about issues with the cost of having kids with:
"Don't have kids if you can't afford them."
"If you couldn't afford kids then you should've kept your legs closed."
"Don't expect a handout, nobody forced you to have kids."
"Healthcare and child care are too expensive? Tough shit snowflake, that's the free market! Work harder!"
"Why are my taxes paying for a public school when I don't even have any kids that go there?"
So nope, no sympathies. And no, you can't have your child sex brides, either.
They are still saying this when it's convenient for them. The only consistent thing for such people is their cowardice in the face of responsibility.
Who the fuck wants to be having kids in this day and age anyway. Also why is it up to the underage teens to push out babies to keep the population up. Yeah let's put pressure on them to ruin their entire lives before they even get to live it. Love the American standards.
The dude was conflating a number of things.
Teen birth rate is down the most, at 7% in 2025. 70% since 2005.
Overall births are down slightly last year.
Overall we have a sub replacement birth rate of 1.53 per woman.
The last one is a societal problem. But just saying we need women to have more kids isn't a solution. You need to find out why people don't want to have as many kids. Which I would bet is almost entirely economic. Kids are a large long term expense. And if you're living paycheck to paycheck, with an uncertain financial future, a kid is a scary prospect.
The problem is the sub replacement birth rate of 1.53 per woman.
This is not actually a problem, except we want to keep the completely unsustainable economic system unchanged.
I mean, they're right.
Maybe if you just imprison fertile women and give them to rich couples to fuck and impregnate, that will solve the problem? You could call them handmaid's to distract from what they really are!
Fertility rates are an issue for capitalism not humanity
Logistics at a certain point does not care what economic model you follow. Someone has to plant the crops and do all the other work that leads to people being fed, clothed, and housed under any system.
If your demographics are such that there are not enough people of working age to take care of those too old to work, you're going to have the kind of problems that led other human societies to kill their elders.
It'd be great if we could automate our way out of this, but I don't see that happening soon enough.
just what the world needs, more americans
I wonder how much breaking up the trump-epstein ring lowered the fertility rate of 15-19 year olds.
And guess who the fathers to those teen pregnancies are? It’s men over 20. Adding a layer of ick to what he’s lamenting.
They want every woman to be a Michelle Duggar - get married as a minor, start popping them out ASAP, and keep the Xerox machine running until someone dies.
Fixing the birthrate is pretty simple in theory. The government needs to meet the needs of people having kids. The details are a little more complicated.
In order to have more kids in their 20's people need:
A higher income in their 20's. If they work full time they deserve to be able to afford a 3 bedroom place, food, etc..
A place to live - Build affordable housing that people can own and build a life. These need to be 3-4 bedroom places that one income can cover.
Medical care: free quality medical care to cover little things like birth cost and the doctor visits a child needs.
Time: Hard to make babies when you are working 60+ hours a week. Mandatory 40 or less work week. 2 months of vacation every year.
Childcare - Free or heavily subsidized childcare for working parents. Currently childcare for 2 children is more than the net average income for one person in many areas. Earlier retirement programs are also highly effective.
Quality schools and education: ban private schools, invest heavily in public schools increasing teacher wages and requirements, reducing classroom sizes, and providing quality educational material. Free college and trade schooling as well.
Hope: Stop fucking up the planet for temporary gains. If we started to reverse our environmental damaging behaviors more people would be willing to have kids
Interestingly, Canada, which has free health care has a lower birth rate than the U.S. where births can cost between $3000 and $70 000.
COSTS ARE TOO HIGH, THE FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK, AND NOBODY WHO CAN FIX THOSE THINGS SEEMS TO GIVE A SHIT.
Go ahead and spend a bunch of money on analysts, though. Ignore the root causes. We’re used to it.