Yep which is why the falling birth rate is not really a problem in my opinion. Let women have control over their lives and the rates will continue to fall.
It’s just not realistic to fight for every single person to refuse to have children.
You’re talking to someone who is already a mother.
I don’t really need to be guilt tripped about having children. If you support women’s rights, you support our right to choose to have kids.
Also we’re really not going to achieve having people give up on having children. It’s not going to happen. If we support women’s choices when it comes to how they want to live their lives, we can reduce the number of unwanted children and that’s good enough for me.
Wow, you really linked to the Institute of Family Studies?
The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is a conservative “think tank” which, according to its website, has the expressed mission “to strengthen marriage and natural family and advancing the well-being of children through research and public education.”[1] Research from IFS and its employees are frequently cited and published in both conservative outlets such as National Review [2] and more mainstream ones, like the Washington Post.[3]. “IFS is a successor to the Ridge Foundation, through which Bradley and others used to support Wilcox’s National Marriage Project.”[1] The Institute for Family Studies says that its “commitment is rooted in the social-science fact that children are most likely to thrive when they are raised by their own married biological parents. The underlying premise of its work is that families and communities, freedom and prosperity, and the political order itself – both at home and abroad – are all critically dependent upon the existence of a strong healthy, pervasive marriage culture among the citizenry.”[4]
IFS is also an associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN), a web of state pressure groups that denote themselves as “think tanks” and drive a right-wing agenda in statehouses nationwide.
That’s not a credible source at all.
Among women under 35 today, 30% already have children, 41% say they want to have children, 15% are not sure, and only 14% say they don’t wish to have children, according to a new Institute for Family Studies/YouGov survey of 2,000 young adults conducted in May to June of 2024.
From the article that @NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io linked…which I’m just now realizing is from Institute for Family Studies a fucking conservative think tank:
The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is a conservative “think tank” which, according to its website, has the expressed mission “to strengthen marriage and natural family and advancing the well-being of children through research and public education.”[1] Research from IFS and its employees are frequently cited and published in both conservative outlets such as National Review [2] and more mainstream ones, like the Washington Post.[3]. “IFS is a successor to the Ridge Foundation, through which Bradley and others used to support Wilcox’s National Marriage Project.”[1] The Institute for Family Studies says that its “commitment is rooted in the social-science fact that children are most likely to thrive when they are raised by their own married biological parents. The underlying premise of its work is that families and communities, freedom and prosperity, and the political order itself – both at home and abroad – are all critically dependent upon the existence of a strong healthy, pervasive marriage culture among the citizenry.”[4]
IFS is also an associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN), a web of state pressure groups that denote themselves as “think tanks” and drive a right-wing agenda in statehouses nationwide.
Right and I agree to an extent. The conversations around this subject always conclude the rates will start to go up if the economy is better or if the US enacts maternity leave and care.
But that doesn’t explain why other countries that have parental leave and better support systems are also seeing falling fertility and birth rates.
The connecting piece that seems to be emerging is women’s ability to control their reproductive health and access to education.
The quote is when she got flustered after being asked in person about Israel. She was indeed a little flummoxed and had a hard time getting her words out at her constituent.
If I link studies showing the different things that affect fertility and birth rates, would you actually read it?
Countries like Finland have robust social security nets and support. Their rates are falling, too. I could name a bunch of other countries that have better support for families and they are also seeing falling rates.
But I’m not going to put in the work if you’re just going to be dismissive and not read anything because you’d rather believe it’s all the economy.
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If you’re using the Voyager app, make sure to select “Custom Response” when you report. That’s where you can detail the rule and how. The other two options just auto send a report to the mods.
Thank you for the updates to the rules. These seem incredibly reasonable.
Oh I’m agreeing with you :)
The article I linked supports your comment about Christians pushing that porn addiction is a thing.
It’s easy to call for the sacrifice of other’s lives behind a screen, isn’t it?
Yeah man, let’s incur thousands of deaths first before trying to elect more democratic socialists.
Nothing is good enough, you’re right. /s
But choosing to not have children because they can’t afford it is a relatively new freedom women have.
Be as pissy as you want, contraception has changed our fertility and birth rates. Poor women didn’t have a choice before even if they couldn’t afford to have more kids.
I love a good breaking of a stereotype myself lol
Do you post any of your bakes on the baking community? I’d love to see them if you want to share!
Honestly, keeping the kitchen and the bathroom relatively clean is the key. Everything else can get cluttered until you have the energy and time! You’re doing great :)
Thanks :)
That was one of those rare moments that I gained a lot of clarity about the situation I was in.
Thank you for bringing this up!
Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction, You Should, Too
Over recent years, numerous studies have begun to suggest that there is more to the story than just porn. Instead, we’ve had growing hints that the conflicts and struggles over porn use have more to do with morality and religion, rather than pornography itself. I’ve covered this surge of research in numerous posts and articles.
Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry, and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent in gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have a history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does.
Jayonnaise hahahahaha
Not when there’s 0 soap in the bathroom and one is touching all the door handles and such to get to the kitchen sink.
It’s more of a reminder how many men don’t wash their hands after handling their dicks lol
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