The “demographic winter” guy is at it again. Don Feder writes in a Feb. 3 WorldNetDaily column:
During the baby boom years, the average American woman had 3 children, well above the replacement fertility rate of 2.1. Today, our total fertility rate (the number of children the average woman will have in her lifetime) is a dismal 1.62 and falling. Soon, our population will begin to decline.
It’s worse in most of the developed world. The total fertility rate is 1.35 in Germany, 1.2 in Italy and 1.0 in China. In France last year, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births. The French fertility rate is at its lowest since the end of World War I.
The fall of fertility is driven by the decline of marriage. In the United States, in 1970, 71% of households consisted of married couples. By 2022, that figure had plummeted to 47%.
In 2024, for the first time in our history, a majority of women ages 18 to 44 weren’t married, twice the number of the early 1980s.
For our survival as a species, society must start pushing marriage and procreation – hard and fast.
We live in an age when many young men would rather stay at home playing video games than go out and socialize. Women are terrified of losing their independence by having a man in their lives. Both think children will compromise their independence.
They need a wake-up call from reality. They will regret it if they go into their 40s isolated and alone. They can work 60-hour weeks, adopt a “fur baby,” throw themselves into a cause. (Attacking federal agents?) Then what?
Having a family may not be joy unbounded, but it beats loneliness, which often turns to bitterness and hopelessness.
Feder then attacked non-right-wing presidents for not having enough children:
The Clintons have one child. The Obamas have two. They not only support Planned Parenthood but also practice it.
President Trump and his Cabinet could populate a medium-size country between them. Surveys cited in The Wall Street Journal show conservative women are far more likely to have children than their counterparts on the left.
Fecundity and faith go hand and hand. Hasidic Jews, serious Catholics and evangelical Christians are the seed bearers of the future. On average, Amish families have seven children, doubling their numbers every 20 to 30 years.
Feder didn’t betray his bias by admitting that these religious people are mostly white (and definitely not Muslim).