We Do Not Have Too Many Babies

Population numbers the world over are falling. Social scientists who study demographic issues point to the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, which charges onward today, as the culprit. It was the beginning of an era of hedonism — free love and loose morals. In the wake of this revolution, we have falling populations, and economic decline that will not reverse itself until the birth numbers do an about face.
Forty years into population decline, the media and the United Nations wail an opposite message: Overpopulation has us in a death grip and we will all starve. Not even close. Rather than a population explosion, we have a western-world population implosion. Thanks to the baby boomer demographic, we will appear to have population growth for a few decades yet, but when that bubble dissipates, our rapidly declining population will be starkly obvious.
To keep population stable, a nation’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) must be 2.1 — each woman, on average, replaces herself and a man with two children, and one woman in 10 has a third child to compensate for infant deaths and higher male births. Without a TFR of 2.1 a nation’s population declines, and with it, as a silent partner, its economy declines, as well. The US Centers for Disease Control reports in its 2010 National Vital Statistics Report that our Caucasian American TFR is currently 1.65, meaning that each Caucasian generation is only ¾ the size of the previous one. At this rate, in five or six generations we are almost gone. This is serious. Babies must consistently be born to continue our race.
America is not alone. According to OZY.com, the world’s population growth rate is now half what it was 40 years ago. Italy has a birthrate of 1.4, where one woman in five of childbearing age is childless. Walk the streets of Italy, which once sported large families, and you rarely see children. Ukraine has a TFR of 1.29 and Greece is 1.39. Japan, however, is the poster child. According to the Population Research Institute of Virginia, Japan is acting out the final stages of the Sexual Revolution — socially acceptable pornography and sex outside marriage with readily available contraception. This has produced a nation-wide “Why marry, why have children?” philosophy. In what is termed the Celibacy Syndrome, 1 in 3 young Japanese do not marry. According to one population expert, “Japan is quietly and comfortably dying.”
Falling birthrates always create a falling economy, for obvious reasons: fewer people to produce and consume. Writing about Europe, Joel Kotkin states in Forbes magazine, May 30, 2012: “Europe’s economic disaster is …largely caused by…a demographic decline”. USA Today, Feb. 13, 2013, says, “There are no cases of peace and prosperity in the face of declining populations.” The Wall Street Journal, in its article titled America’s Baby Bust, Feb. 12, 2012 agrees: human well-being — innovation, investments, conservation — all drop when the population drops. So does a nation’s political power. The WSJ article concludes: “…the only thing that will preserve America’s place in the world is if… Americans…decide to have more babies…we simply must figure out a way to have more babies.”

Yet we’ve been told there’s a population explosion. Not so, says the Wall Street Journal: “For two generations, we’ve been lectured about…overpopulation…this issue is wrong…the phenomenon of fertility collapse…has spread around the globe”. The article continues, “our fertility rate isn’t going up anytime soon. In fact, it’s probably heading lower. Much lower.” The Central Intelligence Agency website, World Factbook, agrees, “Global fertility rates…are projected to decline dramatically over the next 50 years.” If so, our economic woes will continue, as well.
We have humanists to blame for this decline. They want to drop world population from 7 trillion to 1 trillion or less, according to many sources, including infowars.com. This movement is coming under the bogus bully-banner of sustainable development (Agenda 21, renamed). To accomplish humanists’ goal, a many-pronged campaign has been aimed at Americans who are undereducated on this issue. Utah is currently being targeted through advertising by smallfamilies.us to advance the beliefs of the “me generation” that time with them—the parents—is so valuable that children should forfeit siblings to get it. Utah’s family-friendly state has the highest TFR in the Union—we have more children than any other state. (Rhode Island has the lowest at 1.63) Yet our birthrates have tumbled—from 4.3 in the 1960s to 2.6. (Salt Lake Tribune. July 24, 2005)
Why? As the family has fallen apart, birthrates have dropped. Divorce, deliberate childlessness, single parenthood and same-sex unions all pummel the birthrate. Christian devotion, which teaches that children are a blessing in a home, is on the wane. All these factors have added to the decline. In a vicious cycle, falling birthrates bring economic stagnation which brings falling birthrates to parents who say they can’t afford children.
Those soft, kissable cheeks, gurgling baby sounds and pudgy little legs have a purpose beyond tying grandma’s heart in bows. They are about restoring a nation’s greatness and stabilizing its economy. Our well-being depends on the birth of children, and we do not have too many of them. As a nation, we must reset our social intelligence to focus on encouraging and protecting families that bring children into the world. Anything less puts us in a barren future world of few people and fewer dollars to go around. Babies are the world’s salvation to love, continuity, and economic stability.

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Declining Population Part III: Why Do We Have a Declining Population?

In much of the world, people have stopped having the number of children society needs in order to grow and remain healthy and flourishing. Today we answer the question: Why?

We discussed in Part I that the fertility rate must be 2.1 in order for a population to at least remain stable: every woman in the society, on average, must produce one child to replace herself and one to replace a man. In addition, one woman in 10 must have a third child to compensate for infant deaths and slightly higher birth rates among males. Those numbers aren’t materializing; the US has a Caucasian birth rate of 1.65 with an overall US birth rate of 1.9. Much of Europe falls lower than that, with Italy at 1.26. These numbers are a serious concern as we face the prospect of cultures courting extinction if these numbers don’t change.

Population decline is also at the root of our economic woes.  W e are not producing enough people to consume goods and offer the needed services. Population growth produces economic growth; population decline creates a declining economy.

There are two major reasons for our alarming worldwide population decline.

The first takes us back to the economy. As prosperity falters, people fear they cannot afford to have children, so they don’t. Economic decline becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: We don’t have the money, so we don’t have the children, so we don’t have goods being consumed or new services being offered. Creativity and innovation stumble, optimism for the future wanes, and the population declines further in a circular progression that is hard to stop. Sweden has been locked into this spiral for generations, and even serious government intervention hasn’t helped. To encourage births, the Swedish government pays all prenatal and delivery costs, gives the mother a paid year off after a birth, and a monthly stipend for each child until age 18. With all that, Sweden’s fertility rate stands at 1.5, dangerously below replacement levels.

The second reason takes us to religion. Much of the Western world has abandoned Christianity to embrace secular humanism, the “religion” where man worships himself. Under humanism, man puts himself and his wants at the center of existence. These beliefs are opposed to Christian principles, which include a belief in God as a loving Father, a purpose for life and a hereafter, consequences for sin, and a time when we will account for our actions and our treatment of others. Those beliefs all lead us to create families, to think of others, and to structure our lives in ways that build society. Humanism, by contrast, accepts no God and no hereafter with accountability for personal actions. While humanists believe people should treat others well, without the moral force of a divine, universal authority to which we answer if we misuse others, there is little consequence for selfishness. Power-hungry people can rise to prominence, and selfishness expands. The divine, God-given reason for having children doesn’t exist, and children are a hindrance unless one happens to want them. In a culture where humanist principles are expanding, the reasons for having children are contracting.

Demographic experts tell us there is every reason to believe Western populations will continue to decline, probably at even steeper rates than the last 50 years, when population worldwide has decreased by 50%. With the ugly consequences of socialism coming home to roost in most of Europe, economies are, and will surely continue to, decline. With the US debt levels escalating rapidly our economy is guaranteed to take a serious nosedive, bringing economic and population troubles we can only faintheartedly imagine.

In addition, the world seems determined to abandon Christian principles for secular hedonism. As people become increasingly self-absorbed, children will become increasingly burdensome. The future possibilities for a thriving economy and a thriving birthrate appear gloomy.

For years, population fearmongers have flogged public opinion with their bogus issue. It was never real. Those of us who knew God doesn’t overpopulate the worlds He creates tried to tell them so. Worrisome declines in fertility rates have taken up the dialogue, and the statistics are hard to dismiss.

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