CRISIS Number of U.S. households with married couple and children falls to record low

[Troke]

Number of U.S. households with married couple and children falls to record low

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. homes with a married couple and kids fell to a record low, according to new government data, as the pandemic further delayed weddings and

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Number of U.S. households with married couple and children falls to record low
By ALEX TANZI
Bloomberg News
The share of the U.S.’s 130 million households headed by married parents with children under age 18 fell to 17.8% in 2021 from 18.6% last year, according to the Census Bureau. Dreamstime/TNS

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. homes with a married couple and kids fell to a record low, according to new government data, as the pandemic further delayed weddings and more adults don’t plan to have kids at all.The share of the U.S.’s 130 million households headed by married parents with children under age 18 fell to 17.8% in 2021 from 18.6% last year, according to the Census Bureau. That’s down from more than 40% in 1970.

By absolute numbers, there are just 23.1 million homes with nuclear families, the fewest since 1959, the data show.

The pandemic delayed many marriages over the past two years, adding six months to a woman’s age at first marriage — the most since 1987 — to now 28.6 years. In the 1950s and ‘60s, women typically married at 20.4 years of age and 22.8 years for men.

Births have generally been on the decline as Americans are marrying later in life, which has grown more pronounced in the pandemic. The U.S. fertility rate fell to 55.4 births per 1,000 in the second quarter from 58.5 in the same period of 2019, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Friday.

 

[bev]

It would be interesting to see a side-by-side chart or graph comparing the decrease in nuclear families over the last few decades with different types of crime, homelessness, basically all the social issues we have today. I’m sure we all know what that would look like.

 

[Dozdoats]

Gotta make room for all the illegals ...

 

[packyderms_wife]

All by design.

 

[dstraito]

It has been mention here before, there was a video with key words muslim demographics. it was not a xenophobic piece but a statistical look at the effects of reproduction rates.

It talked about minimum sustainable replacement rates births over deaths and I believe we will have gone under that now, especially with a vaccine that makes people sterile

View: https://youtu.be/6-3X5hIFXYU

 

[von Koehler]

Number of U.S. households with married couple and children falls to record low

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. homes with a married couple and kids fell to a record low, according to new government data, as the pandemic further delayed weddings and

www.nny360.com

Number of U.S. households with married couple and children falls to record low
By ALEX TANZI
Bloomberg News
The share of the U.S.’s 130 million households headed by married parents with children under age 18 fell to 17.8% in 2021 from 18.6% last year, according to the Census Bureau. Dreamstime/TNS

WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. homes with a married couple and kids fell to a record low, according to new government data, as the pandemic further delayed weddings and more adults don’t plan to have kids at all.The share of the U.S.’s 130 million households headed by married parents with children under age 18 fell to 17.8% in 2021 from 18.6% last year, according to the Census Bureau. That’s down from more than 40% in 1970.

By absolute numbers, there are just 23.1 million homes with nuclear families, the fewest since 1959, the data show.

The pandemic delayed many marriages over the past two years, adding six months to a woman’s age at first marriage — the most since 1987 — to now 28.6 years. In the 1950s and ‘60s, women typically married at 20.4 years of age and 22.8 years for men.

Births have generally been on the decline as Americans are marrying later in life, which has grown more pronounced in the pandemic. The U.S. fertility rate fell to 55.4 births per 1,000 in the second quarter from 58.5 in the same period of 2019, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Friday.

Blame Marxist feminists.

 

[Troke]

We are at about 1.7 kids/couple when we should be at 2.1. Get it down to 1.4 and the demographers figure that culture will probably not recover.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Does it really surprise anyone that Kool-Aid Haired Land Whale isn't interested in marrying Pajama Boy? And vice-versa, probably.

 

[ssbn642blue]

Who in their right mind would bring a child into this world?

 

[Crusty Echo 7]

Gotta make room for all the illegals ...

Not really, they pack a crap-ton in anything, house, car, van down by the river. Makes getting good stats hard. Also, seeing how many they breed once in the U.S. makes you think it’s a vagina not a clown car.

 

[Peter]

Who in their right mind would bring a child into this world?

One can't live in fear of the future. That is what faith is for. It won't be easy, to say the least but there have been difficult periods throughout history. Until Christ's return we are to occupy.

 

[ArisenCarcass]

Who in their right mind would bring a child into this world?

One shouldn't pray for an easy life.
Instead, pray for the strength to endure a hard one.
-Bruce Lee

Our ancestors had much harder lives than us, with actual existential threats to counter every single day.
Every person is the product of a million generations of evolutionary winners.....self-selecting out of the gene pool is the single stupidest thing I've ever heard of (but also the best thing for my progeny......having less competition).

I will teach and shape My children into people who can (hopefully) survive the coming unrest.

YMMV

 

[Troke]

Who in their right mind would bring a child into this world?

My grt grandmother lost her first two to smallpox, my grandmother lost two of first three to something or other. Luckily for me (heh!) they persevered and continued to have children.

 

[GammaRat]

I taught my boys to avoid "strong and independent women". Also known as self centered, rebellious, brats.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

I taught my boys to avoid "strong and independent women". Also known as self centered, rebellious, brats.

It's okay. They don't need no man anyway. At least, that's what I keep hearing.

 

[Jefferson1776]

Does it really surprise anyone that Kool-Aid Haired Land Whale isn't interested in marrying Pajama Boy? And vice-versa, probably.

Such a horrible shame. Even in our rural farming community we are seeing these epidemic of stupidity. Every time my wife and I go to the local ChinaMart it is packed with weirdness. Mostly the teenagers and 20 somethings, but we occasionally see a few older ones who have weirded out. It took me 20 minutes the other day to explain to my wife what she was seeing. Between the soyboys, halloween everydayers, colored hair and facepainters, LGBQ and the 50 other genderers. I still think she is highly confused. What a mess! Eventually we will have to segregate ourselves into likeminded communities so our children and grandchildren can find someone who is "Normal". I have one very precious granddaughter who is the light of my life. Anytime she goes out with us, my wife and I are like Mom and Papa bears, we guard her like she is our only cub. When the whole family goes out it is so funny to watch her Dad who is a police officer, her Mom, my wife and I hover over her ever where she goes. We all CCW so anyone of these weirdos comes to close, they may regret the day they were hatched!

 

[Border Collie Dad]

The Great Society replaced men in a relationship.
Women's Lib was a logical extension of that.
Then the pussification of males who don't leave their parents' basement.
Finally, seems like damn near everybody is queer these days

 

[TFergeson]

As other posters stated, all by design. The great replacement continues unabated.

 

[Mark D]

I'm a single parent now, but it's not because if the pandemic (Ovarian cancer)... I hate being used as a statistic for an unrelated agenda.

 

[Melodi]

Blame Marxist feminists.

I think it is simpler than that - blame economics and a situation that for three decades now has made it nearly impossible for parents to live on only one income.

This was already true in the San Francisco Bay area when I lived there from 1989 to part of 1994. Most everyone we knew, even people who were married with professional jobs HAD to do house shares with other people and/or live in tiny shoeboxes that you might fit one baby in a drawer but not two.

Divorces were skyrocketed among professional couples even with good jobs who had to "go it alone" and not live with either extended family or very understanding friends.

That's because even with fairly good jobs, the costs of living were already so high and child care so astronomically expensive that young parents often were forced to try to "split" their work shifts so someone would be home with the baby. The results were parents who not only had the normal exhaustion of sleep deprivation and near collapse from normal early child-rearing but who never saw each other, except when handing over the baby. Also the night shift parent almost always never got enough sleep, because life didn't stop and they were alone in the micro-apartment with the baby.

Yes, I know, some people and on this forum made great sacrifices and have managed on one parent's income, but in some places, many of them where the professional or well-paying jobs are/were; that was simply impossible without a live-in relative, a high enough income to afford both an apartment/house and a Nanny or the usual among my friends, take in an older friend with no income (or just Social Security) and let them live free in exchange for child care.

In the following 30 years, this problem has expanded from really high-cost areas like San Francisco or New York to many-many places in the United States.

When this happens and people discover how unimaginably expensive just one baby is (often after they have one) they simply stop there (or they never start in the first place if they see this in their extended family).

This isn't about "feminism" which originally simply meant having a choice, so my great aunt wouldn't have had to lose her fiance, give up her newborn to her sister and THEN become a doctor after the 1918 flu took away her loves. She could at least keep her baby when her partner died, and with family support gone on to medical school to support them. As it was, she supported the entire family including my Dad and his Mother during the Great Depression because she was a "spinster lady-doctor."

This is about ECONOMICS. People stopped having babies during the Great Depression too, or limited them especially people who were poor back when the only sure birth control was "John, please sleep on the sofa."

This situation is simply not going to reverse until for any number of reasons children become highly valued as the future of mankind and/or they become economic pluses again; hopefully not because the world falls into another thousand years or two of dark ages and they are needed to plow the fields and do the hand-washed laundry.

 

[Melodi]

One more comment the "Nuclear Family" was a short-lived aberration that really only existed in the United States on a large scale for a short period after the Second World War until around the 1980s (or early 1990s).

By that, I mean that while historically, even going back to Ancient Greece or Rome, The West (and most other cultures) recognized the ideal of a husband and wife being the foundational unit for making babies, almost no one until very recent times though that they would LIVE ALONE, with just their spouse and those babies.

Even on the American Frontier, where some of the "nuclear Family" myth comes from, families tried extremely hard to have an extra person or two around - from older parents and younger siblings of the wife or husband to "the hired girl" or "the hired man/men."

The most common arrangement was grandparents or the sibling of a spouse living with Mom and Dad especially in more isolated areas. People who lived in towns and cities or the villages of Europe lived next door too if not with the extended family.

All of this and more besides mean that people lived in HOUSEHOLDS, not just one tiny little family against the big-big world, with everything put on Mommy to raise twelve kids, keep the farm going and make Daddy happy. That was important, and it is why men would go to an orphanage and marry a teenager the day after their wife died and left them with an infant, but usually, there would still be other people around or nearby.

One huge problem today both in Ireland and in the US (and in the US my mother saw it as a daycare provider from the 1970s on) is that grandparents, the traditional helpers, are now often still working themselves (both of them). So they are no longer able to "move in to help out" or "take the kids for the Summer" if such help is needed.

Again, this largely comes down to economics and more mobile populations, along with a cultural "myth" that parents are supposed to "do it all and be it all, and do it all alone."

 

[Kathy in FL]

Does it really surprise anyone that Kool-Aid Haired Land Whale isn't interested in marrying Pajama Boy? And vice-versa, probably.

This visual needs an academy award or something. Whew! LOLOLOL

 

[amarilla]

Or grandparents don't want to help. My MIL made it clear before the kids were even born that she didn't want to babysit. At that time, she lived 2 hours away, not like it would have been easy to drop them off. She had friends raising the grandkids so she really didn't want anything to do with them until after FIL died. Too late then, we'd already found other "grandparents" for them. She moved to our area 4 years ago. Our kids don't go over to see her ever, but they do visit the "adopted" grandparents in town.
My parents loved having the kids.

 

[Kathy in FL]

Also, the statistic is for children under 18. I suspect the older the "kids" are the higher the percentage per decade of age. Add them all together and you might find a bit more of a majority.

As for immigrants with under 18, I think a lot of people are making assumptions. Many hispanic male immigrants in this country have two nuclear families and that is a traditional social behavior going back to at least the 1800s. First nuclear family is back in their "home" country. Second nuclear family is here in the States. Sometimes they know about each other, more often they merely suspect or are willfully bamboozled. Sometimes the same holds true for hispanic females but not nearly as often. It is a toss up which "nuclear family" is legitimized with a church/gov issued marriage licensed, sometimes neither nuclear family is.

It is getting where the Middle Eastern men are the same way. They legitimize it by calling it "multiple wives" but often there is a wife in the "home country" and a white-mistress here in the States.

Haitians and other Caribbeans are rather prolific and don't need the blessing of a marriage contract.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

This visual needs an academy award or something. Whew! LOLOLOL

Caaaaaan do!

 

[Melodi]

Also, the statistic is for children under 18. I suspect the older the "kids" are the higher the percentage per decade of age. Add them all together and you might find a bit more of a majority.

As for immigrants with under 18, I think a lot of people are making assumptions. Many hispanic male immigrants in this country have two nuclear families and that is a traditional social behavior going back to at least the 1800s. First nuclear family is back in their "home" country. Second nuclear family is here in the States. Sometimes they know about each other, more often they merely suspect or are willfully bamboozled. Sometimes the same holds true for hispanic females but not nearly as often. It is a toss up which "nuclear family" is legitimized with a church/gov issued marriage licensed, sometimes neither nuclear family is.

It is getting where the Middle Eastern men are the same way. They legitimize it by calling it "multiple wives" but often there is a wife in the "home country" and a white-mistress here in the States.

Haitians and other Caribbeans are rather prolific and don't need the blessing of a marriage contract.

Having two families used to be pretty normal for men from the "Irish Diaspora" too; both those that went to the United States and those that simply moved to England.

The early Chinese immigrants to North America were expected to do this, though their culture pre-1940s allowed for multiple wives so it wasn't quite the "shocker" it might as it was for Bridget in County Cork to find her husband was now married to Mary in New York. But having read some of the immigrant novels from the Asian communities written by modern grandchildren and great-grandchildren it was still often a surprise, especially if wife number one saved up to "join" her husband in the US.

In Angela's Ashes, Daddy eventually just "goes to England" and never comes back, the wife is eventually forced to bring her family to live with an uncle and sleep with him to keep a roof over their heads, and that was in the 1930s, so not so very long ago.

That said, it is (or was) "normal" in a lot of Latin American countries (including Venezuela when I was there in the 70s) for men to have two families. If a man had any money or property at all, it was almost expected that he had his official wife and children; along with a full-time mistress who he supported along with her children.

There were many tragic stories about what happened to the mistress and her children if her protector died - I had a roommate and good friend that was the daughter in such a situation. She was well raised and highly educated, she eventually married a young man who came into his inheritance early but before then, it was simply expected that she would "be a mistress" because no "good" man would be allowed by his family to marry her (aka man of the right means and education to meet her on her intellectual and educational level).

I'm not approving of the idea, but having two families is probably as old as immigration; at least back to Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia.

 

[Dozdoats]

And there will be even fewer after the jabs kick in.