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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 15 2019, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the Storks-on-Strike? dept.

CNN:

The report, published Wednesday, showed that birth rates declined for nearly all age groups of women younger than 35 but rose for women in their late 30s and early 40s.

From 2017 to 2018, the birth rate dropped 7% among teenagers aged 15 to 19; 4% among women 20 to 24; 3% among women 25 to 29; and 1% among women 30 to 34, according to the report.

The birth rate rose 1% among women aged 35 to 39 and 2% among women 40 to 44. The rate for women 45 to 49, which also includes births to women 50 and older, did not change from 2017 to 2018.

On the other hand, there have been recent studies that indicate children born to older women enjoy better long term academic and professional success.


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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday May 16 2019, @09:28PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday May 16 2019, @09:28PM (#844474) Journal

    This sort of story is raw meat to the white nationalist folks among the WASPs. They see the world as an extremely competitive place, and they are very, very afraid. In their worldview, groups of people exist out of a necessity to band together for protection from rival peoples. All fight endlessly for supremacy. There is no common ground. Everyone else is out to get the group they're in. It's paranoia of other peoples, and it is easily pushed to hysteric highs. Problems such as Global Warming are merely opportunities to disadvantage a rival group, or perhaps a diabolic bit of propaganda by rivals, designed to sucker them, get them to waste effort jumping at shadows.

    Groups seen as rivals are Muslims, Jews, brown peoples, scientists, liberals, feminists, homosexuals, Mexicans, Canadians, Chinese, Indians, Commies, Socialists, Italians, Catholics, Irish, hippies, fans of rock and roll music, D&D players, drug users, and more. Their war plan is to grow their group faster than the rival groups, by such tactics as forbidding abortion and contraceptives and even denying women the power to say no to men. A low birth rate is very bad for that war plan.

    If SN wants to run stories of this sort once in a while, I'm okay with that. But you'd best be wearing a snug pair of flame resistant thermal underwear. Also, it's the way the facts were put. This low birth rate fact needs more context. To use a car analogy, it's like being told that your gas tank has only a quarter left, without any more information that will allow you to determine how much further you can go. If it's for some reason a 100 gallon tank on a little car that gets great fuel economy, a quarter of 100 gallons could easily be another 1000 miles of range.

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