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Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by throwmeaway222 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @08:42PM (#45283400)
A lot of money was spent to make sure that happened
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by toomuchtodo on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @08:42PM (#45283407)
We should spend as much as possible to ensure that unwanted children are avoided whenever possible. The cost to not is simply too high.
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by Lammy on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:57PM (#45285192)
Maintain humanity under 500000000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by panarchy on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:17PM (#45284850)
Don't feed the troll.
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by faangguyindia on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:11AM (#45286076)
The people avoiding childrens are high income and education groups
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by dh2022 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:07PM (#45291355)
Has anyone seen the movie Idiocracy? Because the whole premise of this movie is exactly what you wrote. Watch the first 5-10 minutes of the movie if nothing else.
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by toomuchtodo on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:13PM (#45291439)
I don't want to get too in the weeds in this thread, but the evidence is total fertility rate is declining across all income strata, with some evidence in some places higher income women have slightly increased fertility.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-... ("On the whole, a clear conclusion emerges: because different cultural groups often have unique income levels, efforts to correlate income and fertility are often deeply misleading. Global fertility decline was kicked off almost entirely by normative and cultural processes, not strictly economic ones. The effect of income on fertility is not even remotely consistent across cultures or even across times. When whole societies become richer, they do not necessarily have fewer children. Once we control for the basic problem of cultural stratification, the supposed link between low income and high fertility, or high fertility and low income, largely disappears.")

https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/51/26

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by throwmeaway222 on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:54AM (#45298082)
It started with the high income earners, but has shifted to others because everyone has to live with mom right now. No one can afford rent or buying a house.
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by clipsy on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @09:37PM (#45283889)
Say what you actually mean: A lot of women spent money to have control over their own lives.
Re:U.S. sees 5.7M more childless women than expected by dh2022 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @10:13PM (#45284263)
What do you mean?