US EditionEncouraging women to have more babies isn't so easy
- The United States experienced a historic drop in birth rates in 2023, with the fertility rate falling to 1.62 nationwide.
- This decline resulted from complex factors including economic uncertainty, high child-rearing costs, delayed marriage, and shifting social norms.
- Elon Musk and other observers have voiced concern about a possible U.S. Existential crisis connected to sustained low fertility rates and population shrinkage projections.
- According to the Congressional Budget Office, without sufficient new births or immigration, the U.S. Population may begin shrinking by 2033, while raising a child costs about $310,605.
- Efforts like the Trump administration's $5,000 baby bonus and IVF cost reductions face challenges since many barriers to family formation remain deeply embedded in society.
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Commentary | Doomsday birth rates? Keep celebrating motherhood
When I was in my fecund 20s, if Donald Trump had offered me $5,000 to procreate, I’d probably have scheduled an emergency hysterectomy. Not that I couldn’t have used the dough, but any reader of history might justly recoil from government incentives to have — or not have — babies. The only thing more depressing than the president’s still-nascent proposal is the valid reasoning behind it. We humans, having progressively lost interest in childbear…
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