According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. has joined ranks with several European countries. The country’s birthrate fell to 2% in 2008, putting it below the population replacement level of 2.1 children per woman.
“The 2008 preliminary estimate of the total fertility rate was 2,085.5 births per 1,000 women, 2 % lower than the rate in 2007,” said the report.
That figure means that American women are no longer giving birth to enough children to keep the population from declining.
A corresponding Pew Research Study, which attempts to link the decline to the recession, found that only five states had gains in their fertility rates. Those states were: Alabama, Hawaii, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Washington.
An interesting observation from the government report is that the birthrate fell for nearly every age category of woman. The only age categories in which the birthrate increased was among women aged 40-44 and 45-49.
One alarming finding from the study is that childbearing by unmarried women reached historic levels in 2008. The 2008 total is up 27% from 2002, when the increase began. The proportion of all births to unmarried women increased to 40.6% in 2008, up from 39.7% in 2007. The percent of non-marital births increased significantly in 39 states. Teenagers account for 22% of all non-marital births in 2008.
Comments
Post a Comment
Wow.
Will our nation be judged by its fruit?
From the Population Reasearch Institute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBS6f-JVvTY
Well worth a gander.
Demography is destiny. The Islamization of the world is taking place before our eyes. Europe has an average 1.38 fertility rate. No culture has ever reversed a 1.9 fertility rate and 1.3 is impossible to reverse. Take these fertility stats: France: 1.8, England: 1.6, Greece: 1.3, Germany: 1.3, Italy: 1.2, Spain: 1.1. Now add in Muslim immigration and its huge fertility rates (ex. Muslim fertility rates in France is 8.1), and it is obvious that in a few years Europe as we know it will cease to exist. In 2027, 1 in 5 Frenchmen will be Muslim. In 39 years France will be an Islamic Republic. In 15 years 50% of the Dutch population will be Muslim. By 2025 one third of all European children will be born to Muslims. Currently there are 5.2 million Muslims in Europe. Due to immigration and high Muslim fertility rates, that population will double in the next 20 years. Europe will be a Muslim continent in a few decades.
The German government has accepted the changing demographics. “The fall in the German population can no longer be stopped. Its downward spiral is no longer reversible. It will be a Muslim State by the year 2050.”
In Canada and America similar demographics are occurring but at slightly slower rates. The US and Canadian fertility rates are 1.6. With the addition of Latino immigration, the US fertility rate reaches the barely sustainable rate of 2.11. The 9 million Muslims now living in the US will reach 50 million in about 30 years.
Western family generations once resembled a triangle with the point on top. On top were grandparents with their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren spread out beneath them. Now, the triangle stands on its head, point down: 4 grandparents on top with their one child and spouse beneath and a single grandchild beneath them. The myth of overpopulation spread through destructive liberal indoctrination in education is showing its results.
Islamic population now outnumbers Catholic population. France has more Mosques than Churches. The largest Mosque in the world is being built in London. In 5 to 7 years Islam will be the world’s most dominant religion. Tolerance, multiculturalism and relativism have consequences, usually deadly consequences. These demographics are unstoppable and, amazingly enough, Islamic world domination will be achieved without ever firing a shot or resorting to terrorism. Can the new Crusades be far off?
My wife and I will get to solving this problem as soon as possible.
Thank God the population will start declining. We have WAY too many people for the resources available.
Rick, are you serious? Do you know how much food we waste every year in developed nations or how many completely unnecessary items we manufacture when we could be putting our efforts toward helping others? We have more than enough resources. The real problem is the distribution of them. In light of this, anyone claiming that the world is overpopulated can only be considered either misinformed (which I would like to assume) or self-centered: “we actually do have enough resources, but they’re our resources, darnit, and if those other nations don’t have enough, we should hope their populations decrease.”
The recent health care bill that was signed into law sparked a debate in my Christian Social Teaching class. My students were misguided about the dignity of life and associated a “worthwhile” life with a materially wealthy life. Some of them went on to tell me that those who can’t afford health care should be sterilized. I think that proposal would be quite a shocker to folks in the Third World. They believe that their lives are worth living. Although they have less, they have a greater appreciation for what they do have. No person has the right to determine whether another’s life is worth living. This is why God made each of us capable of answering that question for ourselves - and our answer should always be “yes” - no one has a right to take that away from me.
You should do the research on our resources and population before making claims reflecting the talking points of Malthus. It’s not a matter of lack of resources, it’s a matter of lack of generosity, reason, and self-control, and that, sir, is a lack of humanity.
Children are a blessing, not a burden. Especially if you are not overly attached to keeping up with the Joneses (or Smiths).
Let us not blame the “others” for this looming catastrophe: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Any member of the Body of Christ who, at some point in his life sinned, he thereby contributed to the world’s sinfulness of which this self-imposed infertility is one of many products. All of us must lead more joyfully holy lives so as to give others reason for hope, without which the current despair in secular culture will ever-deepen unto collapse.
If you are interested in reading the truth about resources as brought up by Rick, check out “The Ultimate Resource 2” by Julian Simon an esteemed economist out of the Univ. of Maryland (now deceased). He took up a challenge to debunk (and blow up) all of the Population Bomb myths and inaccuracies.
We are the ultimate resource and can do better by our planet and our country but our declining population is NOT a good thing.
we all desire luxuries. We all desire pleasures including unlawful immoral pleasures. We dispise simple life style. All these encourage the growth of selfishness in us. Selfishness is unwilling to share and so desires for lesser number of population. We do not rely on God,s wisdom and we rely on our wisdom. We become more materialistic and less spiritual. Then enter the economists, planners and confuse us If we prefer a simple life style, things will work in a different direction giving more contentment. Are we ready to rely more on God than our wisdom ? we have to be countercultural if want to do so.
Post a Comment
By submitting this form, you give The National Catholic Register permission to publish this comment. Comments will be published at our discretion, and may be edited for clarity and length. For best formatting, please limit your response to one paragraph and don't hit "enter" to force line breaks.