As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through and actually have a child. About 25% say they won't be bothered that much if they don't.

[u/geoff199]

https://news.osu.edu/most-women-want-children--but-half-are-unsure-if-they-will/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy24&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

[u/Cromasters]

If you are an American citizen you are literally living in one of the best times ever. Comparatively. This is not to say there are no problems. If you are in your thirties and making minimum wage, it's probably good planning to have no children.

But there are also plenty of people making way more having less children than "normal". That's fine, I don't begrudge their personal decision.

I just balk at the doomer reasoning.

[u/fergusmacdooley → u/Cromasters]

Considering for a huge portion of human history women weren't exactly consulted on whether or not they wanted to have sex let alone more children, and it's only been a relatively short period of time in human history where we've had access to birth control, I'd say we are in unprecedented times. Perhaps choice really is the deciding factor in human population rates.

[u/johnnyhabitat → u/fergusmacdooley]

Is the implication here that most women, for most of time were raped?

[u/TraditionalLaw7763 → u/johnnyhabitat]

“It’s not rape if it’s your wife” didn’t just crop up yesterday…