A recent study published in Scientific Reports suggests that political beliefs are increasingly linked to the number of children Americans choose to have. The findings indicate that while conservative individuals tend to maintain birth rates near historical averages, left-leaning individuals are having significantly fewer children. This demographic trend provides evidence that differing birth rates are a main driver of recent fertility declines in the United States.
The data revealed a pronounced change in how political beliefs relate to family size. For individuals born in the early 1900s, political orientation had almost no association with the number of children they had. However, beginning with the cohort born between 1943 and 1947, a massive divergence emerged.
“We expected these results, but not to such a dramatic extent,” Fieder told PsyPost. From the mid-century cohorts onward, individuals with right-wing political views maintained birth rates at or slightly above the replacement level. The replacement level, typically considered to be 2.1 children per woman, is the rate needed for a population to replace itself from one generation to the next without immigration.
In contrast, the birth rates of left-wing individuals dropped sharply, falling well below the replacement level in the more recent cohorts. The authors noticed this drop aligns with historical changes in family planning. “We found that the gap began with the introduction of modern contraception,” Fieder said.
No I don’t. And, again, I never talked about “how women are dooming our society”. This is what I’m talking about when I say you’re misconstruing the point.
You understand not wanting kids. BUT society will turn into Idiocracy…if what? If left-leaning women don’t start having more kids is the implied point you are making with this statement.
Your comment makes it obvious that this is a concern to you. Usually people look for solutions to problems they are worried about, right? You’re pushing this is a problem that women aren’t having enough children to counter conservatives having children.
This is a manufactured problem.
Once again, the world rarely involves tidy solutions. I repeat once again that I am not implying a solution, I am simply observing that sometimes rational people making rational decisions have negative consequences. You’ve made a lot of assumptions to twist that into claims I never made. I really don’t appreciate that.
…yeah this isn’t a comment made in a vacuum. This directly implies that women’s choices are leading to negative consequences.
My point is that I don’t think the falling birth rates are a problem at all.
So? Many rational choices made by many people lead to negative consequences. Again, “That is not a weakness. That’s life”
You’re free to believe as you wish.