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Yet Another Reason Women Are Having Fewer Babies
Panic over dropping fertility rates?
Families in Europe, and North America are having fewer children. Reasons may vary: among them, it is not affordable, nor supported by certain societies which shall here remain nameless.
Another reason is that many of us feel like it’s the end of the world and we need to make a new one.
Recently, several pundits have weighed in on low birth rates. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is among one of the most prominent, but certainly not the only one, to worry about falling fertility.
It is easy to blame things like lax morals, working women, and “the war on men.” And, progressives will point at lack of suppor for women: “A war on Women”, But, what if some people just realize, something like Greta Thunberg has, that until we fix the trashed world we have made, we have no business making more people to further trash up the place?
As mentioned, people on the right will find everything from birth control to the careless sexual revolution (decades ago) as to why women aren’t staying home, raising babies, and baking cupcakes from scratch— preferably in an apron and heels — anymore.
Conservatives blame a whole host of “threats” from feminism to LGBTQ rights, whereas progressives…