Why are Liberal Americans and European Socialists not Having Kids?
April 13, 2010 by
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The hard data on babies around the Western world is that they’re running out. “Replacement” fertility rate–i.e., the number you need for merely a stable population, not getting any bigger, not getting any smaller–is 2.1 babies per woman. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader, Somalia, is 6.91, Niger 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75. Notice what those nations have in common? Islam!!!!!!!!
Scroll way down to the bottom of the Hot One Hundred top breeders and you’ll eventually find the United States, hovering just at replacement rate with 2.07 births per woman. But Canada’s fertility rate is down to 1.5, well below replacement rate; Germany and Austria are at 1.3, the brink of the death spiral; Russia and Italy are at 1.2; Spain 1.1, about half replacement rate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550345/posts
By 2050, Italy’s population will have fallen by 22%, Bulgaria’s by 36%, Estonia’s by 52%. In America, demographic trends suggest that the blue states ought to apply for honorary membership of the EU: In the 2004 election, John Kerry won the 16 with the lowest birthrates; George W. Bush took 25 of the 26 states with the highest. By 2050, there will be 100 million fewer Europeans, 100 million more Americans–and mostly red-state Americans!
Does the world really need more people?
Well in America the liberals keep aborting their children (oops I mean fetuses).
Capitalist economies require men and women to work. Less time to make babies.
It’s white westerners (Americans & Europeans) that aren’t reproducing at a sufficient level. Most of the 100 million more Americans in 2050 will be the descendants of Hispanic immigrants, & they won’t be voting for the GOP.
I don’t know why, but that’s why Europe/Commonwealths had to resort to massive immigration.
Because they pay way to many taxes in Europe to support kids. In the US, it is because that having a family is not a huge issue to a liberal.
Well, it’s because people socialists aren’t religious, and don’t believe they need to “go forth and multiply.” I believe in zero population growth, and that people need to stop believing the ridiculous ideal that big families are better. That comes from mistakenly thinking you are better than someone else and your genes need spread throughout the earth.
Have you been in the Netherlands once?
It’s a cupboard compared to the States.
Moderate multiplying is a matter of survive.
Simple,
Because Americans only care about MONEY. The more they have, the more they want. Status and material things are the envy of many American’s eye, especially the hard right. Money money money.
“Hey Joe, if you work 90 hours this week you may get a bonus.”
“You can see the wife next month. If she loves you, she won’t mind. You are doing it for her anyway right?”
“I am an independent woman! I refuse to depend on some man to put food on my table!”
“How many degrees can I earn in my lifetime?”
“Honey, how about a 4800 square foot house for just the two of us? Imagine the look in so-and-so’s eyes when they see it!”
“I only date guys that drive Mercedes”
I say good! The fewer liberals and socialists the better…
All I can say is GREAT!!
The biggest environmental problem on the planet is all the humans.
Seriously, though, I think that, in the parts of the world which you note that this is the trend in, the expectation of your children taking care of you in your senior years is dissapating.
Without the expectation of a being a security blanket in the later years of life, children are noted by many more couples in today’s society as being a committment that a two-income household can have trouble in meeting.
smarter people have less children… thus the red states have higher birth rate while blue states is lower…
Besides the pain of pregnancy & childbirth, which the current generation may not wish to go through because we like things easy, there’s the fact that it is an increasingly complicated & difficult world out there. With a graduate degree, I don’t make nearly enough to raise a child. And it would be very tough to raise them into an ethical AND happy human being! War, hunger, globalization, poverty, school shootings, gang fights in the schools, animal abuse, corruption in government, predators on the internet, AIDS, tension in the world–this is a hard time to grow up. No harder than any, really, but even small kids know a lot about the world, and it’s enough to make even a mature adult jaded at times. It’s daunting!
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THAT’S WHY CONSERVATIVES WILL TAKE OVER SOON!
I don’t know. I’ll go ask my children.
Please….
So…what’s your point? Are you saying that the earth is running out of white people and that this is somewho the fault of liberal americans and european socialists? The whole planet is overpopulated and we’re abusing the resources we have. The fact that there are whole countries full of starving people and that there have been so many wars all over the world over the past decade is proof that the worldwide birthrate needs to decrease. And it doesn’t have to do with religion or politics. It just has to do with too many people. All this talk of “replacement rate is garbage”. It’s not like humanity is in danger of dying out in the next couple of years.
Education .breaking away from the church.. social responsibility…access to contraceptives..blah blah blah
it’s usually related to poverty/wealth…
the wealthy aren’t having as many children on average… those in poverty have many… often due to no birth control and religious birth control restrictions in some nations…
those who have wealth seem to want to “enjoy” it and have children later (thus won’t have as many) and it’s just a quieter life…
you gotta check this out
You gonna complain when there aren’t any abortion clinics to picket? The level of education is a direct paralell to the number of kids you have…people have more just like a bird has more to flood the predators and hope that one or 2 will make it….Liberals are like caring birds that raise just a couple chicks, but care for them
So why don’t U have a kid! Unless it turns out to be retarded and just plain ugly or stupid. This small Earth of ours has just too many humans on it as it is. Or U can get yourself an illegal to be your maid for $2.50/hour without benefits.
Liberals ,in many cases ,are trying so hard to earn living
wages that there is not enough time to have children .
Abortion is another reason for the declining birthrates
of liberals .
Liberal Americans and Europeans are generally better educated than their neighbors of other convictions. Educated people tend to act more responsibly than the uneducated. The educated realize that over population is a problem and tend to have fewer children. The educated can succeed at having fewer children as they have the benefit of knowing the science about reproduction, reproductive health and management.
The result is a lower birth rate in more developed, more civilized countries.
I detect a political, maybe even prejudiced slant in your question. The simple answer is that the biological tendency toward the expression of altruism though behavior is currently being displayed by the more educated people of the world. The planet is at the brink of sustainability. Population pressures are ruining our environment and degrading the quality of life worldwide. Earth does not need more babies. Those with higher consciousness realize this truth and sacrifice their individual right to procreate for the betterment of the whole.
Since the process of life is one of differentiation and recombination we can expect that there will be no great loss to mankind by the lack of ‘liberal’ American and ‘socialist’ European offspring. Whatever needs to be done will be by the people alive when the need arises.
Americans and Europeans constitute only a small minority of the total world population. A little knowledge of world history would cause thinking people to realize that western people have no monopoly on ability, skill, or goodness. In fact, their recent history would suggest that perhaps the world would be better off without them: two world wars costing 100 million lives. In any case, I don’t think you need worry any. There was a time when there were NO Americans (meaning U.S. citizens) and only barbarians lived in Europe and yet the world kept on turning.
Is everything a “Liberals” fault? If you take a look, the Third World countries need more children because of the higher MORTALITY RATES there. By having more, some will survive. The Western Civilization works more, survival rate is high, divorce rate is high, so there are less children.
Everything doesn’t have to be about terrorism and Muslims, you know…
They have bought into the population explosion myth.
I am German. I don’t want kids. They are expensive, smell bad, and a big headace.