How To Turn Around US Birth Rates, According to Project 2025 Group

[Libloom]

Two academics have argued that the "harmful over-consumption of schooling" is responsible for the plummeting birth rate across the U.S.Jay P. Greene and Lindsey M. Burke, both Ph.Ds, are concerned that other Americans may be becoming unnecessarily educated. An overview of their argument was published on Monday on the website of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank where Burke is the director of the Center for Education Policy and Greene is a senior research fellow.

Greene and Burke believe education policy discourages Americans from starting families in favor of attending university and also suppresses religious beliefs that encourage high fertility rates.

"Education policy also suppresses fertility by discouraging parents from choosing religious education in K-12 schools," they said, noting, "Adults who are more strongly attached to religion tend to have many more children."

https://www.newsweek.com/birth-rate-population-timebomb-education-project-2025-1998690

[Irish_Dem]

1. Keep women uneducated and popping out kids every year.

They cannot go to school, get a job, make their own salary.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. The GOP and Project 2025 want an uneducated/undereducated voting population

College grads tend to vote for Democrats

[walkingman]

3. If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

[The Madcap]

4. I see where they got their Ph.Ds...

T**** University, or an equivalent box of Cracker Jack.

Young people don't want to spend their entire youth having kids and working for peanuts when they could be having a good time. Once you hit about 35, it's really difficult to do that. I don't begrudge them one bit. In fact, I'm envious of their youth and energy.

If education provides better opportunities, why would any rational person not pursue it. What do they want? Cave men and women just going at it all day and pumping out kids by the dozens and then going off to work in some menial job that takes about a week of training, tops? That's not a life. These fools don't seem to understand that we don't get multiple shots at this thing called life. We need to enjoy it and do the best we can with the one chance we get.

You want birth rates to improve? Do this:

1. Make having babies affordable
2. Make daycare affordable
3. Make school affordable
4. Make college affordable
5. Make jobs pay better
6. Provide support to parents because raising kids is hard.

This isn't going to happen as long as people are treated like serfs in our country.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Many European countries have already done all those things,

and guess what? Very low birth rates.

[The Madcap]

9. Good point...

Those are the things that led me to wait, but I'm only one person.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Low birth rates are hardly unique to this country.

Here's a link that contains many other wonderful links on this topic: https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2024/

The only reason population in this country is growing is because of immigration.

When most children who are born live to grow up, as compared to some large percent not living to grow up, women fairly quickly stop having so many children. The only reason the population of China is still growing is that there are still many millions of women of child- bearing age, but their total fertility is well below replacement rate. Again, look at the population pyramid for China.

This planet is already vastly overpopulated, and we are not collectively reducing our population at this point.

And I really wonder how many children each of those academics cited have.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Well, if you want to increase the birthrate in this Country, ehhh, get rid of the GOP, that would help a lot, and

there wouldn't be so much stress in this Country as it is, people w/o stress do tend to engage in more pleasurable actions, if you get my drift. Right now, as it is, people are so stressed-out w/ the GOP and their idiotic doings, that people are not having children because of them. And I'm being serious too.

[LoisB]

8. Don't ya know, University education should only be for the upper class. Peons should work the fields and

factories and keep producing more field and factory workers. Leave the thinking to them.

[sdfernando]

10. This proves to me

that having a PHD doesn’t mean you are smart or have common sense.