TOO STRESSED TO PROCREATE - The Burning Platform: "Here is
another brick in the wall of the Fourth Turning. Births are
declining rapidly just as they did in the late 1920′s and early
1930′s. The birth rate bottomed out at 19.0 in 1933 and stayed
flat until after World War II. Today’s birth rate of 13.5 is the
lowest in US history. With our rapidly aging population (10,000
people per day turn 50 years old), this low birth rate is
another nail in our coffin. The declining births follows the
exact pattern of the last Fourth Turning. This is totally
logical as the mood darkens. When people see a bleak uncertain
future ahead, why would they bring a child into the world? The
NCHS reports that U.S. births declined to 4.136 million in 2009,
from 4.247 million in 2008. The birth rate declined to 13.5 from
13.9 in 2008 (births per 1000 total population). Births have
declined for two consecutive years, and are now 4.2% below the
peak in 2007. Notice that the number of births started declining
a number of years before th