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U.S. sees 5.7 million more childless women than expected, fueling a "demographic cliff"
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I remember over the summer hearing on NPR (mandatory puke sounds) about how the fertility rates are dropping below replacement everywhere (it's not) and nobody knows why (we do)
Anyway it was real fucking frustrating to have pundits and the supersmart scientists dancing around the causes and painting all the white countries having declining birthrates as the biggest existential problem the world has ever known.
This kind of response makes perfect sense when you can't question underlying capitalist relations as being the source of the problem.
Yeah and it hurts so badly when you're forced to listen to libs orbit around the obvious problem but never able to see it or address it.
When . . . will . . . they . . .crack??!?!?!?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Animals in captivity usually don't breed in large numbers. The animals we domesticated historically were the handful of weird species that would breed in captivity.
Humans are animals. The more and more people feel they are in captivity, the fewer children they will have.
Do you have a citation for this claim? My understanding from work experience when I was younger is that in modern agriculture, most stock is forcibly bred.