Birth rates in the United States hit a 30-year low in 2017.
Millennials especially compared to their baby boomer parents and other young adults simply aren’t having many kids.
For context, it would actually be cheaper to send your child to in-state college.
For a median income household, group child care represents about a fifth of money earned.
However, for minimum wage earners, child care can cost a whopping two-thirds of their earnings.
It makes sense why an overwhelming percentage of parents are forgoing having additional children.
All things considered,49 percentof young adults say they’re too worried about the economy to have any more children.
Hurd discovered that people cut back on their spending after seeing a steep decrease in home values.
It certainly seems that that thinking has permeated American families when it comes to determining household sizes.
Tyler Cowen toldTimethat, for many, money is still tight.
With money fears also comes lovers' quarrels.
Of course, this isn’t exactly conductive to, ahem, baby-making.
However, another mouth to feed is, naturally, an added expense.
But what happens when that stability never comes or comes too late?
Since 1980, half of all Americans haven’t seen an increase in wages, according toHarvard Business Review.
For many parents, that’s not going to cut it.
Raising children often involves very little leisure time at least in the United States, that is.
American mothers, on average, have just 36 minutes.
How do they do it?
For one thing, Danes work fewer hours per week than Americans, according toSchulte’s book.
Failing that, though, there are some things you might do here and now.
Schulte said to first recognize the external pressures to over-work, over-do, and over-parent.
“Take a breath.
Find a internet of support,” she added.
While that may sound like a dream to Americans, many countries provide even more.
Many of the Americans surveyed byThe New York Timescited this policy as a reason for having fewer children.
There’s no doubt about it: this is ahugeissue facing parents and would-be parents in the United States.
Comparing the United States to any such unstable nation would be a stretch, right?
There’s also pressure from schools to be actively and constantly involved.
She continued, “The same thing at work: Let’s volunteer for Habitat for Humanity!
Join the CEO for coffee and conversation!
The struggle is most definitely real.
It makes sense, then, that more people would develop concerns.
We just lost our nerve.”
Nevertheless, they all cited being “worried about domestic politics” and thus are having fewer children.
Meeting a partner after it was too late was cited by 34 percent of those surveyed.
Other adults 22 percent said they had fewer children than anticipated because they split up with their partner.
Withjust about halfof couples in the United States ending up divorced, this could be a reality for many.
Meaning that some partners simply don’t want children.
The earth, in a probable response to increased levels of greenhouse gases, is warming up.
Well one way, albeit one controversial way, is to have fewer children.
“Certainly it’s not my place as a scientist to dictate choices for other people.
Some Americans are taking care of too many people already
Are you part of the sandwich generation?
Quite literally, it means that there’s too many of us taking up space on this blue marble.
Rightfully, it’s a matter that freaks out a lot of people.
So, this problem must be pretty epic, right?
Another fact of the matter is that population growth has been increasing so fast and unlike ever before.
That means there’s really nothing to compare it too.
Can the planet sustain 11 billion souls?
Some young adults aren’t willing to roll the dice.
Some prioritized their educations and careers
“First comes love.
Then comes a baby in a baby carriage,” or so the old children’s song goes.
Others would likely also inject more linesbefore getting to marriage and babies.
Chances are you’re doing a better job than you give yourself credit for.”
We can all be thankful for that.
