Given the negative blowback that hasn’t let up since it resurfaced, vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance doubtless regrets his sarcastic allusion to elite female Democrats, including Kamala Harris, as “childless cat ladies” in a 2021 interview with then Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Since 2016, the number of children under the age of 10 as a proportion of the population has shrunk in every one of Canada’s six largest cities. Most of these major cities are losing children at a rate faster than Canada’s overall national decline.
Not a surprise. Toronto will be a desert soon. I see rewilding in it’s future.
Dinks — the dual income, no kids cohort who have been triggering conservatives on TikTok — appear to be one of America’s fastest growing demographics.
For decades, environmentalists have warned that there are ‘too many people’ on the planet. Apparently, the world is facing mass famine, ecological disaster and total societal collapse if the global population continues to expand. But what if the opposite is true? According to demographer Paul Morland, author of new book No One Left, it is not overpopulation, but depopulation that poses the greatest threat to mankind. All over the world, even in poorer countries, fertility rates are plummeting. Unless we reverse this demographic decline, humanity could soon struggle to sustain itself.
The costs and rising expectations of parenthood are making young people think hard about having any children at all
Americans aren’t just waiting longer to have kids and having fewer once they start—they’re less likely to have any at all.
The shift means that childlessness may be emerging as the main driver of the country’s record-low birthrate.
Women without children, rather than those having fewer, are responsible for most of the decline in average births among 35- to 44-year-olds during their lifetimes so far, according to an analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey data by University of Texas demographer Dean Spears for The Wall Street Journal. Childlessness accounted for over two-thirds of the 6.5% drop in average births between 2012 to 2022.
The Japanese government has begun to consult young people about their interest in marriage – or lack thereof – as Japan continues to struggle with a demographic crisis that is expected to result in a sharp population decline over the next decades.
The Children and Families Agency, launched in April 2023, held its first working group meeting on Friday to support young people in their efforts to find partners through dating, matchmaking and other means. Attenders included those considering marriage in the future and experts versed in the challenges facing younger people.
Female choice is the greatest force in nature. It can make or destroy species – and civilisations.
We live in a period in which the consequences of female choice-making are more significant than they have ever been. This is because it has now become possible for women to choose, to a greater extent than ever before conceivable, whether to have children at all, how many, and with whom – from a potentially almost limitless array of potential partners. Nobody should (I hope it goes without saying) advocate for a moment returning to a time when they were not so free to choose. But we have not yet even begun to reckon with the consequences of this – in historical terms – extraordinary development.
The Italian government could give 1,000 euros a month to economically disadvantaged women who choose not to have an abortion.
A bill, which is due to be tabled in the coming days, would award the monthly payments for five years to women who would have terminated their pregnancies due to financial hardship. Women who are on low household incomes and who are Italian citizens residing in Italy will qualify for the measures, Corriere della Sera reports.
Anna Smith would like to start a family.
But she would also like more space for a baby, as the 27-year-old and her partner currently live in a 500-square-foot apartment in Toronto’s east end for $1,550 per month. Like many Canadians in their 20s and 30s, she says she’s realizing she can’t have both.
So Smith, a University of Toronto graduate student, has been delaying having children for two years now, a decision she calls “just heartbreaking.”
Trudeau found a way to kill babies without conceiving!
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk says the “biggest problem that humanity faces is population collapse.” The business magnate isn’t the only one to point out the severity of the declining birth rates situation that many countries face.
A Lancet study published in March warned that by the end of the century, fertility rates in 198 out of 204 countries will be too low to sustain their populations, with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for one in every two children born.
While many governments, such as Sweden, Norway, and Taiwan, have attempted pro-natalist economic policies to encourage their citizens to have more children, they have ultimately been largely ineffective in reversing the decline.
The debate around a profoundly influential scientific experiment, Universe 25, may give us some insight.
Ivan Pavlov’s salivating dogs, Burrhus Frederic Skinner’s ping pong-playing pigeons, Harry Harlow’s love-starved rhesus monkeys — these laboratory animals have entered into the pantheon of behavioral science, aiding us in our understanding of conditioning responses, non-contingent reinforcement, and the importance of contact comfort, among other phenomena. Yet these renowned experimental subjects, through no fault of their own, cannot shed much light on those existential questions concerning the fate of our own species. Enter John Bumpass Calhoun and his self-destructive colonies of rats and mice.
It turns out that babies are good little assets to have around. Despite famed catastrophist Paul Ehrlich (still) warning of imminent population-driven “famines, pandemics, water shortages, climate disasters, resource wars,” the earth is awash in natural resources, with some experts attributing the abundance to humans having acted fruitfully by multiplying.
Life during and after the coming Demographic Winter.
There are some things you’re not supposed to say in 2024 America, and Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said some of them.
Speaking to a graduation crowd at conservative Catholic Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, Butker took on Joe Biden’s performative faux-Catholicism, transgender ideology and – most shockingly – suggested to female graduates that they would find a better, more rewarding, and more productive life as wives and mothers than in corporate-style careers.
Two things.
1. Stand with Harrison Butker who spoke up so courageously in a culture that condemns Catholic & conservative values.
2. Share his FULL speech, so the left can’t edit it in a way to fit their agenda & attack Butker.
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) May 16, 2024
Fertility and family are on the decline in Canada, and governments should be worried about it, a policy advisor warns.
In a new report, Decline and fall: Trends in family formation and fertility in Canada since 2001, jointly published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, Tim Sargent asks three questions: (1) do people gain significantly from being part of a family? (2) What are the trends in family formation in Canada over the past two decades? And (3), what factors explain these trends?
Marriage and fertility rates are on the decline in Canada, a newly released report suggests.
The number of single, never-been-married adults has increased substantially since 2001 among those 45 and younger, and is becoming particularly common among those under the age of 30, according to the report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. And that decline in marriage has directly impacted fertility rates, with the country hitting a record low as more and more women put off or forgo having children.
