We are living at a time when a large segment of the world - particularly societies in Europe, North America and Asia - no longer views having children as something desirable or worthwhile. Whereas before, remaining childless was something people often felt shame over, even if it was through no choice of their own, we are now living at a unique historic moment in which many people proudly broadcast the fact that they have no children as something to celebrate or be proud of.
Finally some sense!! Even as a woman I can’t fully grasp the proud celebration of being ‘single’ and ‘child free’. Bringing children into the world and caring for them has been the hardest and yet most rewarding thing I have ever done. You need to be able to move away from serving your own needs to be aware of and meet the needs of a small, vulnerable human being who is totally dependent on you. It’s a roller coaster ride for sure.
And then you may be blessed with grandchildren (who are infinitely precious).
The rest of what you say is true too.
I’m not sure why it has become fashionable among women to focus on themselves to the exclusion of having children or a partner. Both marriage (and divorce!) and parenthood changed me mostly for the better and I learned and grew as an individual. Now I am older and retired I have time to indulge myself in other pursuits which bring fulfilment but nothing will ever come close to being ‘mum’.
It may be that some women suspect this but are unwilling to admit it openly. One way to deal with the insecurity of being single might be to display apathy or indifference toward the vocation of marriage and parenting.
There is rampant infertility caused by certain recent injections. Also by purposefully poisoning our food and water with aerosolized chemicals and poisons. The demons in charge want to wipe out almost all life on earth and use the few remaining people as their slaves.
Well, I can see how at an individual level, pretending it makes no difference either way, or that it's no big deal not to have children, could be a way to "normalise" or remove any possible stigma from being single or childless. I'm not sure whether this is large-scale, coordinated propaganda though. I haven't seen evidence of that. It is a cultural trend, reinforced by Hollywood, TV, popular culture etc.
It is certainly quite a predominant trend these days. I do struggle to understand it (and I come from a standpoint where as a young woman I was determined to have a career because I had a degree and was not interested in having a family until was 30). That said I have 4 children 😊
Indeed it is hard to work out exactly what is driving declining birth rates. Would be good to extrapolate miscarriages/still birth rates and figure out if most of the birth reduction is lifestyle or recent “vaccines”
It is a long-term trend, over many years, and there is a combination of people waiting late in life to have children (thus reducing their chances of giving birth) and reduced fertility related to lifestyle and presumably diet, birth control medication and other factors known to affect fertility. I'm not an expert, but I have spoken to people who know more about this sort of stuff.
> We are living at a time when a large segment of the world - particularly societies in Europe, North America and Asia - no longer views having children as something desirable or worthwhile.
REPLY: Seems we are. But there is a lot that led to this time. It easily started in the 1960s with the idea of over population (one could go back to the Industrial revolution). Not being able to love via providing a home, health, education etc. is what stopped me from having children..
As you know in the US it is nearly impossible for people to have children without drowning in debt. Prior to the Nixon/Ford administration people lived on small farms and knew they could feed their families. It was not unlike the Amish except the depth of community in some parts of the country was lacking.
During the Nixon Ford era, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told small farmers to get big or get out. By shifting the economic incentive toward corporate ag the small farmer sold out move to the burbs and cities and worked in factories etc. Ultimately humans entered a version of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) where their food is supplied by corporate owned super markets and fast food takeout etc., the entertainment needs by cell phones computers and TV and similarly their emotional programming.
Well here we are. Are the folks leading us down this path really qualified. If so qualified where does this all end. How did we get so dumb?
After peaking at 6.8 million farms in 1935, the number of U.S. farms fell sharply until the early 1970s. Rapidly falling farm numbers during the earlier period reflected growing productivity in agriculture and increased nonfarm employment opportunities. Since 1982, the number of U.S. farms has continued to decline, but much more slowly. In the most recent survey, there were 1.89 million U.S. farms in 2023, down 7 percent from the 2.04 million found in the 2017 Census of Agriculture. Similarly, acres of land in farms continued a downward trend with 879 million acres in 2023, down from 900 million acres in 2017. The average farm size was 464 acres in 2023, only slightly greater than the 440 acres recorded in the early 1970s.
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Interesting (I grew up 1950s to 1970s) Earl Butz and the Get Big or Get Out to small farmers is also gone or at least soft peddled.
My understanding is that Butz used the small farmer as a foil to get more subsidizes to larger corporate farms.
The Industrial Revolution also made mechanized war profitable in a way never before imagined which played havoc with family farming and small towns of time.
When I was growing up in rural Calif.there were many small turkey, pig, and chicken ranches and small farming communities. These are all gone now. Land can only be purchased and owned by the wealthy or handed down within the family.
It is sad really when so many people are out of work and on the street. But no one knows how to work anymore and most people don't want to be poisoned by corporate farming methods (Herbicides, Pesticides etc.). Compare the Amish community which has farmed Lancaster County for nearly 300 years, who are pacifist (don't fight in wars) ability to keep farms thriving and family close and over all healthy.
Finally some sense!! Even as a woman I can’t fully grasp the proud celebration of being ‘single’ and ‘child free’. Bringing children into the world and caring for them has been the hardest and yet most rewarding thing I have ever done. You need to be able to move away from serving your own needs to be aware of and meet the needs of a small, vulnerable human being who is totally dependent on you. It’s a roller coaster ride for sure.
And then you may be blessed with grandchildren (who are infinitely precious).
The rest of what you say is true too.
I’m not sure why it has become fashionable among women to focus on themselves to the exclusion of having children or a partner. Both marriage (and divorce!) and parenthood changed me mostly for the better and I learned and grew as an individual. Now I am older and retired I have time to indulge myself in other pursuits which bring fulfilment but nothing will ever come close to being ‘mum’.
It may be that some women suspect this but are unwilling to admit it openly. One way to deal with the insecurity of being single might be to display apathy or indifference toward the vocation of marriage and parenting.
Some single men express disinterest in marriage and say the single life is fantastic. I think some of the time, this is covering up their insecurity.
Or failure!
There is rampant infertility caused by certain recent injections. Also by purposefully poisoning our food and water with aerosolized chemicals and poisons. The demons in charge want to wipe out almost all life on earth and use the few remaining people as their slaves.
Do you think that what seems like propaganda in favour of being single and childless is to cover up what is happening by normalising it?
Well, I can see how at an individual level, pretending it makes no difference either way, or that it's no big deal not to have children, could be a way to "normalise" or remove any possible stigma from being single or childless. I'm not sure whether this is large-scale, coordinated propaganda though. I haven't seen evidence of that. It is a cultural trend, reinforced by Hollywood, TV, popular culture etc.
It is certainly quite a predominant trend these days. I do struggle to understand it (and I come from a standpoint where as a young woman I was determined to have a career because I had a degree and was not interested in having a family until was 30). That said I have 4 children 😊
Yes. That is exactly what they are doing.
No surprise really - and of course you are anti feminist if you say otherwise 🤷♀️.
Indeed it is hard to work out exactly what is driving declining birth rates. Would be good to extrapolate miscarriages/still birth rates and figure out if most of the birth reduction is lifestyle or recent “vaccines”
It is a long-term trend, over many years, and there is a combination of people waiting late in life to have children (thus reducing their chances of giving birth) and reduced fertility related to lifestyle and presumably diet, birth control medication and other factors known to affect fertility. I'm not an expert, but I have spoken to people who know more about this sort of stuff.
Here is a visual of European births that was just updated today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cm27874/p/european-births-q1-2024-update
Interesting thank you. Obviously many factors are at work economic, social, cultural - the world is changing fast!
Birth rates were below replacement everywhere and they still wanted a deadly depopulation vaxxx? Apparently so.
Having a child is the most wonderful gift I could wish for anyone.
> We are living at a time when a large segment of the world - particularly societies in Europe, North America and Asia - no longer views having children as something desirable or worthwhile.
REPLY: Seems we are. But there is a lot that led to this time. It easily started in the 1960s with the idea of over population (one could go back to the Industrial revolution). Not being able to love via providing a home, health, education etc. is what stopped me from having children..
As you know in the US it is nearly impossible for people to have children without drowning in debt. Prior to the Nixon/Ford administration people lived on small farms and knew they could feed their families. It was not unlike the Amish except the depth of community in some parts of the country was lacking.
During the Nixon Ford era, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told small farmers to get big or get out. By shifting the economic incentive toward corporate ag the small farmer sold out move to the burbs and cities and worked in factories etc. Ultimately humans entered a version of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) where their food is supplied by corporate owned super markets and fast food takeout etc., the entertainment needs by cell phones computers and TV and similarly their emotional programming.
Well here we are. Are the folks leading us down this path really qualified. If so qualified where does this all end. How did we get so dumb?
I think farmers were already a tiny fraction of the population around Nixon Ford. However, the number of farmers declined even more then.
No doubt that is true. Especially with mechanization of farming.
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See: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=58268
After peaking at 6.8 million farms in 1935, the number of U.S. farms fell sharply until the early 1970s. Rapidly falling farm numbers during the earlier period reflected growing productivity in agriculture and increased nonfarm employment opportunities. Since 1982, the number of U.S. farms has continued to decline, but much more slowly. In the most recent survey, there were 1.89 million U.S. farms in 2023, down 7 percent from the 2.04 million found in the 2017 Census of Agriculture. Similarly, acres of land in farms continued a downward trend with 879 million acres in 2023, down from 900 million acres in 2017. The average farm size was 464 acres in 2023, only slightly greater than the 440 acres recorded in the early 1970s.
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Interesting (I grew up 1950s to 1970s) Earl Butz and the Get Big or Get Out to small farmers is also gone or at least soft peddled.
My understanding is that Butz used the small farmer as a foil to get more subsidizes to larger corporate farms.
The Industrial Revolution also made mechanized war profitable in a way never before imagined which played havoc with family farming and small towns of time.
When I was growing up in rural Calif.there were many small turkey, pig, and chicken ranches and small farming communities. These are all gone now. Land can only be purchased and owned by the wealthy or handed down within the family.
It is sad really when so many people are out of work and on the street. But no one knows how to work anymore and most people don't want to be poisoned by corporate farming methods (Herbicides, Pesticides etc.). Compare the Amish community which has farmed Lancaster County for nearly 300 years, who are pacifist (don't fight in wars) ability to keep farms thriving and family close and over all healthy.