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by kwere 602 days ago
record amount of women are set to be single and childless past the fertility window, the most reasonable cause is a "lack of eligible bachelors"[0] in similar or better socioeconomic conditions.

Record amounts of people will never reproduce creating a deep demographic imbalance, bankrupting most social programs.

[0]https://www.medicaldaily.com/egg-freezing-rises-among-gradua...

1 comments

Sure, and that's not ideal for women, but it's also not stopping their dramatic rise in education, wealth and status.

As for bankrupting the social safety net, that's a real concern, but it's not unavoidable. We've already seen into the future in places like East Asia and Western Europe. We've got a ways to go in the US before our fertility rates match theirs, and they're still holding the line. Plus, it's a problem that America is uniquely prepared to handle as a nation of immigrants. Once the hardcore nativist movement has finishing blowing its wad.