Liberal kids don’t want families
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The Baby Bust has entered a new chapter. Birth rates have been falling for more than 18 years, but the desire for babies has been steady. To date, the Baby Bust has been about unmet desire for family. That’s about to change. High school seniors are less and less interested in getting married and having […]
The Baby Bust has entered a new chapter.
Birth rates have been falling for more than 18 years, but the desire for babies has been steady. To date, the Baby Bust has been about unmet desire for family.
That’s about to change.
High school seniors are less and less interested in getting married and having children, and this trend has been ongoing for a few years. That means the young men and young women leaving college these days, and entering their mid-20s in the coming years, have less interest in tying the knot and having children.
“Monitoring the Future” is a study of high school kids conducted by the University of Michigan since the 1970s. From 2012 to 2022, seniors became less confident that they would get married and have children. The percentage of high school seniors who said they expect to ever get married fell by 7 points among men and 14 points among women.
Likewise, when asked how many children they want to have, a significant number are now saying none. This never used to happen. The op-ed pages of the New York Times are not representative: Almost no American women or men say they ideally would be childless. Gen Z is different.
Gen. Z women are more liberal than earlier generations, and liberal women and men are turning against family.
High school students who call themselves conservative are holding steady, where about 90% say they want children, with most of the remainder saying they are unsure. For self-described moderates, the number only recently fell from 90% to 82%. For liberal high school seniors, the desire for children is plummeting: Nearly 90% a decade ago wanted at least one child, but in the 2021 to 2024 surveys, only 67% do.
Why? There are a dozen possible culprits.
If you believe the oil companies have already poisoned the climate, why would you bring children into that world? More to the point, if you believe “we are the virus”, that humans are destroying the planet, why would you make more of us?
The boogeymen of systemic racism and the patriarchy play a role here.
Becoming a wife and mother sounds like subservience to a women’s study major. And what good male feminist would bolster a system of oppression such as heterosexual marriage and the nuclear family?
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And if you believe that America is fundamentally racist, then either you’re producing more racist white babies or more babies of color who will never be treated as humans.
It probably goes deeper, though. Liberals are less likely to believe in God. So when a liberal 18-year-old comes face to face with his own fallen nature, he concludes that he is bad, and not seeing the possibility of redemption, he decides the noble thing is to end his bloodline.