New sex drought threatens SS, Medicare, the GDP, the future (Politico report) and more Autism. Young adults are scared.
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 3:44 am
I think overpopulation is a problem, but the problem in the US is underpopulation.
Jesus Christ! Only technology can save us. I just hope not to be old when I become a parent, perhaps I should freeze my sperm.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... sex-216953Perhaps the least surprising, but most damaging, consequence of the recent decline in sex is that the nation’s birth rate continues to fall to near record lows. In the wake of the Great Recession, births in the United States plunged. But even as the economy has improved, births have continued to decrease since 2014 among women under 30. These birth declines among young women have far outpaced modest birth increases among women 30 and older. This has brought the projected total fertility rate to a 38-year low in the United States: 1.77 children per women for 2017.
Another consequence, then, of the sexual counter-revolution is likely to be continuing declines in American births, with all that entails for the long-term health of the labor force and taxpayer base. Over time, absent increases in immigration, continuing declines in births will translate into fewer workers and consumers—which, in turn, will mean reduced economic growth, less entrepreneurial activity, and a declining ratio of taxpayers to retirees, spelling trouble for the solvency of programs like Medicare and Social Security.
To be honest, we are not sure if sex will keep declining. The sexual pendulum could start swinging in a different direction. But if it doesn’t—if the rate that people are having real sex continues to fall... then the United States could end up in danger of following a relational and economic path already pioneered by Japan.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... e-gap.htmlNew parents tend to be older in general. The average age of first-time mothers is 26, up from 21 in 1972, and for fathers it’s 31, up from 27.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.htmlIt showed that men in their 30s were 1.6 times as likely to have a child with autism as men younger than 30.
Jesus Christ! Only technology can save us. I just hope not to be old when I become a parent, perhaps I should freeze my sperm.