cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45445434
Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Marc Siegel made some eyebrow-raising comments lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
On Thursday, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that the U.S. fertility rate fell to another record low. The agency reported that the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age declined from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.1 last year. The latest figure represents a continuation of a decades-long decline in fertility rates.
Siegel joined Friday’s edition of America’s Newsroom, where Dana Perino said that while the continuing trend is not surprising, “the numbers might feel a little shocking.”
Brace yourselves for the pedophile parasite class campaign to justify their crimes
Aren’t these the people who freaked out about teenage pregnancies?
They’re Republicans. Of course they are concerned about teen pregnancies.
Who do you think is making them pragernet?
They were angry about “single mothers” for decades, but that was a racist dog whistle.
If you’re all white, it’s all right.
Abstinence education is working! How are they not happy at their success?
This entire administration is just pedos and perverts, isn’t it?
Not all of them. Here’s the exhaustive list of those who aren’t
Always was.
In a normal country, a doctor endorsing teen pregnancy would get their licence suspended.
This just reminds me of a US coworker of mine who just became a great grandmother. It’s teen pregrancies all the way down. Mother at 16, grandmother in her 30s, great grandmother at 50.
Walmart or Dollar Store?
Tech
How embarrassing
She’s pretty proud of it.
How many times do conservatives have to prove that they’re all pedophiles before the rest of us will learn?
not a matter of “learning”, it’s a matter of “caring”
everyone knows by now this regime is full of pedophiles… but nobody gives enough of a fuck to do anything about it
I’m not talking about the regime. I mean every last one of them.
15-19 yr olds aren’t supposed to be having kids.
In a regular society? Yes. But this is America we’re talking about.
just what the world needs, more americans
Fucking lemongrab grade screeching of purity and abstinence for decades and then suddenly this
Now, now, let’s not pretend these people are encouraging sex, those young whores are still to be shamed.
They’re just supposed to have kids and be loyal to husbando. No pleasure involved.
(Also, they always supported teen pregnancy because they have always been anti-sex education and anti-contraceptive which allows the process of teenage parents to happen without them having to condone it).
Our masters want us to breed.
Every accusation a confession.
Ayo Kim wexler
I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country. Now the same right wing moralizers are saying they need those teen moms again. But this time it’s about money so they are noticeably quiet about morality.
And don’t forget future soldiers are needed. There’s a place for everyone.
Yeah let’s feed the young men to the cannons, so that old guys can have the young girls, urghh…
I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country.
before that it was commonplace though. I’m 61, my grandmother started having her kids at 16, she had 8, one of them my mother, the youngest of her kids. Many of her friends were similarly 15-19 having thier first kid. My mother was 19 with me, I was born when she turned 20. She had 3 kids, i have none, my sister none and my brother 2, so family dynamics have changed.
This is Australia though, you can read books of some of the early convict ships coming over and they arrived with all the 13-16yr old girls pregnant, or having had their kid on board and being married etc
You can see some of the effect in The Philippines, pregnant teen mothers are everywhere. Religious indoctrination in regards anti contraception doesn’t stop teens fucking (and this in a nation with no divorce)
Only locally it’s a bad thing. Nationally, they need those girls waiting tables in diners. How else is someone going to get their nostalgia kick while driving route 66?
humans. can’t. breed. in. captivity.
Bullshit. We’d be extinct otherwise
They’re saying the quiet part out loud and why they’re anti-abortion. The younger the better for a quick turnaround:
They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.
I frequently just stand outside and look at the sky and think, yep, we weren’t meant to work all day. We were meant to pick berries and mushrooms and take naps. I feel better about my station in life, knowing those oligarchs can never be satisfied, and all I have to do to feel right is take a walk outside.
Didn’t we always hunt?
Yeah, that’s why we can run
Edit: Distance running that is. Humans have better endurance than almost any land animal, so we can chase prey to exhaustion. It helps that we’re crafty enough to carry water and snacks with us
Not an expert, but that would depend on the location, probably. Smaller game, certainly, but not everyone had large animals roaming around. Likewise, there were probably people who hunted and didn’t gather that much because there simply wasn’t that type of plant around.
But the point made still stands: modern life is not something natural to our evolution.
Peoples would migrate across continents to follow the populations of animals if there were no large animals presently roaming around.
Given that, I think it’s safe to guess most early humans were more than willing to put in a little more effort to hunt over gather regardless of location.
Yeah, Ill sit in a deer stand all afternoon, or pick blueberries. Both are better than email.
No, they want robots to work in the factories, because they don’t complain and don’t unionize, and don’t take time off, and work for electrons.
They want to not have to pay the people who will be buying the things produced in the factories.
The logical problem with that is too many steps ahead for them to see.
Yeah, but the good news is they are going to keep us desperate and dependent until that can be attained with certainty just in case that plan doesn’t work out for them and they’re stuck with us.
And guess who the fathers to those teen pregnancies are? It’s men over 20. Adding a layer of ick to what he’s lamenting.
I distinctly remember a time when boomers and talking heads would automatically respond to concerns about issues with the cost of having kids with:
“Don’t have kids if you can’t afford them.”
“If you couldn’t afford kids then you should’ve kept your legs closed.”
“Don’t expect a handout, nobody forced you to have kids.”
“Healthcare and child care are too expensive? Tough shit snowflake, that’s the free market! Work harder!”
“Why are my taxes paying for a public school when I don’t even have any kids that go there?”
So nope, no sympathies. And no, you can’t have your child sex brides, either.
They are still saying this when it’s convenient for them. The only consistent thing for such people is their cowardice in the face of responsibility.
