Why The U.S. Government Can't Convince Americans To Have Kids

[IronLionZion]

[LiberalArkie]

1. Hint, it is not just the U.S. All the industrial nations. Young adults can't afford to take care of themselves

much less a child also.

Thailand birth rate for 2022 was 9.72, a 1.88% decline from 2021
Japan birth rate for 2023 was 7.01, a 1.35% decline from 2022. Japan birth rate for 2022 was 7.11 , a 1.33% decline from 2021
Vietnam's fertility rate currently stands at 1.91 children per woman, ranking among the five lowest in Southeast Asia, according to the Ministry of Health.
While the regional average is 2.0 children per woman, Vietnam's rate is only higher than Brunei (1.8), Malaysia (1.6), Thailand and Singapore (both 1.0).

[chouchou]

2. Children are expensive. When your mortgage or rent, electricity, water, transportation....is...

..way much more than just a few years ago, people don't and probably CAN'T have another mouth to feed.
Anybody remember Hotel 6 or hotel 8 ? True, was 2 decades ago but, paying 65-85 dollars each night for RENT?
Jesus Christ!

[et tu]

3. not one

iota regarding catastrophic climate change-
our planet is becoming more and more unstable.
who wants children in this scenario???

[Linda ladeewolf]

4. Not to mention the threat of AI

Taking jobs away from, well, everyone! An article on axios says that within two years, most white collar jobs will be AI positions, that leaves factories and they will be using robots, so where are the people going to get a paycheck? How can you make money when no one has a job? How can you pay for kids when you have no job, no home, nothing. Perhaps they should just give each young person a basic income and a place to live. I’m all for it. We can tax the crap out of the billionaires and have more than enough to pay for it.

[IronLionZion]

7. We need to give lots more tax cuts to our billionaires

so they can trickle it down. Having more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime isn't enough. Taxes are holding these job creators back from creating jobs.

[lark]

5. They want forced birth and intend to get it, one way or another.

They intend to take away any choice women have in this and force us to give birth - even if it's by rape. They want tons of poor, starving, desperate folks with no education or medical help, who will work for pennies, get sick and die young. They intend to force this model on America, whether we approve or not.

[Basso8vb]

6. Happily child free my whole life.

[k_buddy762]

8. Having kids is the greatest accomplishment of my life

Two of my own and I've helped raise five others.