USA Demographic Decline - Low Birth Rates
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/26/child-free-childless-adults-pew-study/74561070007/
Why are more adults not having children? New study may have an explanation.
57% of adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely to ever have kids say a major reason is they just don’t want to; 31% of those ages 50 and older without kids cite this as a reason they never had them
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Most common answer - It just didn't happen.
I'm a bit surprised. That seems so apathetic. I can understand infertility as a reason some couldn't have children and other reasons as distinct choices to remain childless, but I wonder how many other outcomes in people's lives just do or don't happen without any specific choices being made.
Big Al
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Re: “It just didn’t happen.”
I look at it like why people end up not playing a musical instrument or speaking a second language. For many folks, there is no real need for it and it’s just not a high enough priority, so “it just didn’t happen.” :man-shrugging:
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You still have people like JD Vance who seem to think that there's something wrong with people who do not to have children. The fact that he was so open with his comments leads me to believe that there are a lot of people like him out there. Mr wtg and I don't have kids, and for a long time we got the "when are you going to have kids?" question.
I think a lot of people don't feel like they owe anyone an explanation about personal things, and an answer like "it just didn't happen" sort of shuts down the conversation.
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Teen birth rates hit another historical low in 2025, CDC says
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rates-hit-another-historical-low-2025-cdc
The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, ...
Reasons cited include:
higher use of contraception and lower sexual activity for youth, and ... continued access to abortion care
Overall, nearly 126,000 babies were born to mothers ages 15 to 19, according to the analysis of provisional data. The birth rate for that age group was 11.7 births per 1,000 females. By contrast, the teen birth rate in 1991 was 61.8 births per 1,000.
The report also explored other topics related to births in the United States. The overall birth rate fell 1% from the previous year, also continuing a long decline. ...
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"U.S. birth rate continues to fall"
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5779627/birthrate-united-states-babies-immigration
710,000 fewer babies were born last year in U.S. compared with two decades ago
The U.S. fertility rate continued its slide to historic levels, due to plunging teen pregnancies and far more women delaying motherhood into their 30s and 40s.In 2007: 4.2 million babies were born
In 2024: 3.6 million babies were born
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