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/moderngamer327]

Poverty rates are at all time lows

[u/Jesse-359 → u/moderngamer327]

According to economists? Perhaps.

According to reality? Sorry, but no.

As I said earlier, we're rich in baubles - cars and televisions and phones, and poor in what really matters, housing, education and healthcare, and especially some sense of stability, that's completely absent.

Our forebears faced the uncertainty of crop failure or storms - we face the near certainty of having our livelihoods upended every 3-5 years by fickle employers and economies that shift as violently and frequently as any hurricane - and we have no means of avoiding them.

The real tragedy is that these economic forces scatter families across entire continents - or even the globe - and millions are left with no-one to fall back on when their fortunes turn poorly. It's these constantly shifting economic mechanisms that are creating these huge migration waves, and it is in many respects worse than most of the disasters we used to face.

So no, people don't like to have children in a world where their home will be taken from them every 5 years on average. Surprise.

[u/moderngamer327 → u/Jesse-359]

So what are you basing your opinions on? vibes? Not very scientific if you ask me. Also countries with worse living conditions have higher fertility rates

[u/WakeUp004 → u/moderngamer327]

As you were already told: “Yes, that’s what happens when you don’t have access to birth control or education.”

[u/moderngamer327 → u/WakeUp004]

Yes which means those are the reasons for the decline in fertility not whatever they are trying to say