Young people don’t want to have children in a country that leaves parents of young children utterly alone to navigate this cost.Ī national poll conducted by Morning Consult for the New York Times found that about a quarter of respondents who had children or planned to have children said they had fewer or expected to have fewer than they wanted. It’s hardly surprising that my daughters are putting off having children.
Consider this: as of 2018, the cost of child care had already increased by 65 percent since the early 1980s and now costs more than college tuition or a monthly mortgage in many states. Parenting has always been difficult but if you hear a young person complaining about how it’s gotten harder, believe them.
In Italy, rapid drops in fertility have led to closing hospitals and schools. “It can be part of the answer.”įor now, Texas’ low birth rate means fewer people buying homes and stocks, fewer nurses and in-home caregivers, fewer taxpayers to fund Social Security and Medicare. “Immigration is never going to be the answer,” Orrenius said. Immigration alone won’t be enough to offset the declining birth rate, Pia Orrenius, vice president and senior economist at the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, recently told the Dallas Morning News. While Texas is still the fastest growing state in the nation, that growth largely stems from net migration from other states - namely California, New York, Illinois and Florida - and other countries, including Mexico, China and India. In Texas, the birth rate is declining even faster than the national average, according to recent data, raising concerns among demographers and economists that the state will see significant labor shortages in the next two decades. Today women have, on average, around 1.8. In 1950, women had, on average, 3 children. 'Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise' Dana Suskind, MDĪmericans are having fewer children than the minimum of 2 needed to maintain a steady population, a pattern that is expected to remain true for the foreseeable future. Fertility rates declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, and the birthrate for women in their 20s has fallen by 28 percent since its recent peak in 2007. birthrate is at an all-time low, with the pandemic exacerbating a downward trend. We ought to be devoting similar thought to an equally pressing and indisputably related problem: our nation’s declining fertility rate and what we’re doing - or not doing - to reverse it. searches for its new normal in a not-quite-post-pandemic world, much attention has been paid to the dual crises of labor shortages and women’s exodus from the workforce. If we don’t reorient society to provide it, even Texas won’t be able to import enough people to keep its population growing - or even stable.Īs the U.S.
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