The Answer to Falling Birth Rates Isn’t More Pressure on Women - Feminist Majority Foundation
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America’s total fertility rate has reached a new low of 1.57 children per woman, a 1% decline from 2024. According to the Wall Street Journal, some organizations warn that declining birth rates could eventually leave too few young people to enter the workforce and help sustain programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.  This […]

As the current administration and pro-natalist groups continue to panic about women delaying motherhood, we must reject the “alarming fertility statistics.” If women choose to have children, that decision should be guided by their own goals, circumstances, and desires, not by pressures to solve a manufactured problem.

At the end of the day, supporting families means creating conditions in which people can make reproductive decisions freely. The solution to declining birth rates is not limiting women’s choices, but ensuring they have the resources and support needed to build the lives and families they want.

  • Crostro
    11·
    24 days ago

    Animals under high stress do not reproduce. This has been well established. Humans are animals. The global economy has produced too much stress and the rewards are going to a handful of people, while we suffer to make “line must always go up” a reality for them, we can’t afford food. But we did briefly have the world’s first trillionaire, so that’s pretty nifty.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
      52·
      24 days ago

      It’s not really about the stress so much as it is about women having control over their own life choices.

      Which is what the article says.

      • Crostro
        42·
        24 days ago

        I agree, women not having bodily autonomy, speaking as a non female, sounds like it would be stressful

        • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
          43·
          24 days ago

          Women are delaying having children and prioritizing other things like career advances, education, and travel which is affecting the birth rate.

          Which is what the article says.

          Yes the stress has an impact as well. But there’s other reasons like women having more choice over when they have children.