Demography

The Racial Identity of Americans Is Rapidly Blurring. Politics Hasn’t Caught Up.

More people are identifying as multiracial, taking on more complex identities that researchers and politicians are struggling to understand

In the final weeks before Election Day, the campaigns have targeted their fight for votes to particular racial and ethnic groups, with Vice President Kamala Harris rolling out an “opportunity agenda for Black men” and Donald Trump courting Latino voters in a town hall hosted by Univision in the past week.

Yet increasingly, the categories familiar to recent generations—white, Black, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian and Hispanic—are dissolving rapidly, yielding to more fluid and complex identities that researchers and politicians are struggling to understand.

By one definition, the U.S. multiracial population surged from nine million to almost 34 million from 2010 to 2020, or from about 3% to more than 10% of the population, according to the Census Bureau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography, Election 2024, USA

Worldwide Efforts to Reverse the Baby Shortage Are Falling Flat

Imagine if having children came with more than $150,000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes.

Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no.

These are among the benefits—along with cheap child care, extra vacation and free fertility treatments—that have been doled out to parents in different parts of Europe, a region at the forefront of the worldwide baby shortage. Europe’s overall population shrank during the pandemic and is on track to contract by about 40 million by 2050, according to United Nations statistics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

The Reasons Behind Canada’s ‘Birth Rate Crisis,’ From Canadians Themselves

Lack of success in finding the right partner and rising costs are among the main reasons Canadians are waiting to have children or not having any at all, a new poll suggests.

Half of Canadians who would like to become parents say they have delayed it longer than they would like, according to an Oct. 10 poll by the Angus Reid Institute. Just over 40 percent said economic and job uncertainty is one of the main reasons for deciding to wait, while a similar proportion, exactly 40 percent, said they can’t find a suitable partner. Child care costs and the housing crisis come next as major factors for the delay, both cited by slightly more than 30 percent of respondents in the group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Demography

Does anyone still want kids? Families are shrinking as people have fewer children — or none at all

Demographers, sociologists and your mother-in-law want to know: why aren’t people having as many kids?

Canada recorded its lowest-ever fertility rate for the second year in a row in 2023, according to Statistics Canada, at 1.26 children born per woman. It now joins the ranks of “lowest-low” fertility countries, including South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan.

Statistics Canada said the drop between 2022 and 2023 specifically reflects an increase in the number of women of childbearing age, but also noted the fertility rate has been steadily declining for more than 15 years.

Of course there may be reasons unremarked upon in the article.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Canada’s fertility rate has hit a record low. What’s behind the drop?

Canada’s fertility rate, which has been steadily declining, has hit a record low and the country is now among the “lowest-low” fertility nations.

Statistics Canada released new data on Wednesday showing that the Canadian fertility rate in 2023 was 1.26 children per woman, which is the lowest recorded level since the agency began collecting data.

The record-low fertility rate was registered across the country in 10 of the 13 provinces and territories.

NO FUTURE. People are reluctant to have children in a nation whose government hates them so much that they import millions from incompatible cultures so they can harvest votes and impoverish their own citizens through depressed wages and unaffordable housing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Demography

Canada’s major cities are rapidly losing children, with Toronto leading the way

Since 2016, the number of children under the age of 10 as a proportion of the population has shrunk in every one of Canada’s six largest cities. Most of these major cities are losing children at a rate faster than Canada’s overall national decline.

Not a surprise. Toronto will be a desert soon. I see rewilding in it’s future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Demography

‘We have never seen our populations fall like this before’

For decades, environmentalists have warned that there are ‘too many people’ on the planet. Apparently, the world is facing mass famine, ecological disaster and total societal collapse if the global population continues to expand. But what if the opposite is true? According to demographer Paul Morland, author of new book No One Left, it is not overpopulation, but depopulation that poses the greatest threat to mankind. All over the world, even in poorer countries, fertility rates are plummeting. Unless we reverse this demographic decline, humanity could soon struggle to sustain itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Why Americans Aren’t Having Babies

The costs and rising expectations of parenthood are making young people think hard about having any children at all

Americans aren’t just waiting longer to have kids and having fewer once they start—they’re less likely to have any at all.
The shift means that childlessness may be emerging as the main driver of the country’s record-low birthrate.

Women without children, rather than those having fewer, are responsible for most of the decline in average births among 35- to 44-year-olds during their lifetimes so far, according to an analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey data by University of Texas demographer Dean Spears for The Wall Street Journal. Childlessness accounted for over two-thirds of the 6.5% drop in average births between 2012 to 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography, USA

Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis

The Japanese government has begun to consult young people about their interest in marriage – or lack thereof – as Japan continues to struggle with a demographic crisis that is expected to result in a sharp population decline over the next decades.

The Children and Families Agency, launched in April 2023, held its first working group meeting on Friday to support young people in their efforts to find partners through dating, matchmaking and other means. Attenders included those considering marriage in the future and experts versed in the challenges facing younger people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Can Women Be Persuaded to Have More Children?

Female choice is the greatest force in nature. It can make or destroy species – and civilisations.

We live in a period in which the consequences of female choice-making are more significant than they have ever been. This is because it has now become possible for women to choose, to a greater extent than ever before conceivable, whether to have children at all, how many, and with whom – from a potentially almost limitless array of potential partners. Nobody should (I hope it goes without saying) advocate for a moment returning to a time when they were not so free to choose. But we have not yet even begun to reckon with the consequences of this – in historical terms – extraordinary development.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Italy Proposes €1,000 Monthly Aid for Mothers Who Turn Down Abortion

The Italian government could give 1,000 euros a month to economically disadvantaged women who choose not to have an abortion.

A bill, which is due to be tabled in the coming days, would award the monthly payments for five years to women who would have terminated their pregnancies due to financial hardship. Women who are on low household incomes and who are Italian citizens residing in Italy will qualify for the measures, Corriere della Sera reports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate, Demography, Italy

Many Canadians in their 20s and 30s are delaying having kids — and some say high rent is a factor

Anna Smith would like to start a family.

But she would also like more space for a baby, as the 27-year-old and her partner currently live in a 500-square-foot apartment in Toronto’s east end for $1,550 per month. Like many Canadians in their 20s and 30s, she says she’s realizing she can’t have both.

So Smith, a University of Toronto graduate student, has been delaying having children for two years now, a decision she calls “just heartbreaking.”

Trudeau found a way to kill babies without conceiving!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Demography

ANALYSIS: To Reverse Canada’s Declining Birth Rate, Cultural Changes May Be More Important Than Economic Ones

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk says the “biggest problem that humanity faces is population collapse.” The business magnate isn’t the only one to point out the severity of the declining birth rates situation that many countries face.

A Lancet study published in March warned that by the end of the century, fertility rates in 198 out of 204 countries will be too low to sustain their populations, with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for one in every two children born.

While many governments, such as Sweden, Norway, and Taiwan, have attempted pro-natalist economic policies to encourage their citizens to have more children, they have ultimately been largely ineffective in reversing the decline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Demography