Why is it that American couples
don't want to have kids?
In fact, an increasing percentage
of American couples are not only
child list, but do not intend
on having children in the future.
This comes in a new pew research
survey.
And this also comes after six
straight years of a declining
birth rate in the United States.
Now, according to the respondents
in the survey, 44% of non parents
ages 18-49 say it's not too likely
or not at all likely that
they will have children someday.
And increase of 7% points from
the 37% who said the same in 2018.
Honestly, it doesn't surprise me at
all that that number continues to
rise, especially considering
the lack of support American
couples get in this country for
having children.
And then let's take a look at this
graph, which shows that responses
from adults who already have
children have also indicated that
they were slightly less likely
to have additional children than
the 2018 numbers.
So for instance, it was 51% in 2018
and now it's 54% saying that
it's unlikely that they're going to
have more children.
And listen, it's fascinating cause
on one hand, you have these neo
liberal economic thinkers arguing
that we shouldn't have any type of
support for American families.
They're doing everything they can
to destroy paid family leave to
destroy any chance of extending
the child tax credits at the biden
administration passed under
the covid relief bill.
But then on the other hand,
there like, my God,
what are we going to do?
There aren't enough children to
help fund these social spending
programs that we have,
we need to do something right away.
Okay, how about don't create
an environment where people feel
increasingly uncomfortable having
kids because there's no support.
Okay, no child care,
you gotta pay for
it out of your own pocket and
it's increasingly expensive health.
I mean, the, the child care workers
are making slave wages working
at these places while parents
are being charged an arm and
a leg to the point where mothers
are deciding, you know what,
why am I even working?
My entire paycheck is
going toward child care.
Why don't I just stay home and
take care of my own kids.
I mean, it's become a complete
utter disaster.
And these morons are like, wow,
wow, why is it,
why is it that an increasing number
of American couples don't want to
have children?
because this is the worst country
to have children in economically
speaking.
>> Okay, so now, in the old days,
there was a great number of reasons
why everybody was pushed to
have kids.
One look naturally, people want to
pass on their genes as a
evolutionary instinct that we have.
So that remains the same in the old
days and today, right?
But there are other factors
involved.
So back in the day, infant
mortality was through the roof and
generally people died much younger
and more often.
So a lot of people would have a lot
of kids because
not a lot of them would survive.
Even my grandmother growing up in
south Eastern Turkey at the time
had six hits, only two survived.
So, that's why the culture set in,
which was have as many kids
as possible.
Now, what did you do with the kids?
Well, it wasn't just because
they're like,
we think it will make you happier.
No, that's ridiculous.
>> They don't usually.
Yeah, no, it doesn't,
my kids have made me very happy.
It depends on your situation.
I'll get to that in a second.
But that wasn't why the old rules
existed.
The old rules weren't like now make
sure you do this, this and this
because it will make you happy.
>> No, no back in the day,
the real reason was you needed boys
in the fields in the farms to
actually do the manual labor.
So the family could survive,
you needed girls for
other reasons but
also having to do with labor.
And then honestly the kind of
halfway sold them off later for
more money and dowries,
etc depending on your culture.
And then finally, we needed more
soldiers for the battles.
So everybody was so tribal,
back when these old rules were
written thousands of years ago that
the Israelites needed more people
in their army against
the Canaanites and the Philistines.
So they told that what did they
do in their text?
They did propaganda.
Kids kids, kids have kids
have kids don't be gay by the way.
That will prevent more kids.
Kids kids kids kids,
because they needed armies and
they needed labor.
Okay, nowadays, well, those things
don't make any sense anymore.
I know some people are still
following a lot of people are still
following rules from 2,000
years ago.
But in the modern world,
especially in America,
we have incredibly low wages and
we have no safety net at all.
So one half of this country claims
pro life.
Mom, we're not going to help
you at all.
No childcare,
no universal pre k no, nothing,
nothing at all to help you, right?
>> No paid family.
>> No paid family leave.
The minute you have a kid,
nothing but
costs an incredibly low wages.
And yes, a lot of us still have
a biological drive to have kids,
but some don't.
And the new autonomy does help in
that case.
Now, the old school folks.
So that doesn't help.
I need more people for
my armies and etc.
And for my now, for my factories.
Great, chaos.
>> Yeah.
But for rational people, we go,
well, if you want to have kids,
great have kids.
Apparently you like it, right?
If you don't want to have kids,
then don't have kids.
Why would I care what you do?
>> Yeah, no, I mean it's all so
fascinating because people like
Marco Rubio, Republican senator
from Florida loves to talk about
how like the top economic fix in
America is to have more children.
What is he talking?
It's ridiculous, that's insane.
But to be in a reunion,
in a married relationship and
to have children,
it's just like the most ridiculous
nonsense ever.
Especially when you look at how
they actively destroy any
opportunity to make this
environment easier to be a parent.
Now, let's get into the reason
cited by the respondents.
There was a difference between
the older respondents in
the younger respondents in
regard to the reasons for why
they don't want to have children.
But I didn't like that this was
even an option because what
is this?
Okay, so they asked them,
what's your reason and
the majority, 56% said they
just don't want to have children.
Okay, but
why, what does that even mean?
And then they get into
specifics, right?
So as you can see in the graph,
19% cited medical reasons,
very legitimate reason.
They're, only 17% cited financial
reasons and I'm not buying it.
Like, I think once you get rid of
the, they just
don't want to have children answer.
I would argue that the financial
number would probably increase.
But when you look at
the younger respondents,
that number is actually higher.
So about a quarter of parents
younger than 40 who don't expect
to have more children in the future
site financial reasons 26% compared
with 8% of those between the ages
of 40 and 49.
And also the ages the parents that
are older, about 40 usually
have more disposable income.
So if you're younger,
you have a lot less income and
then it makes it even harder.
So that's another reason why
those numbers are not surprising.
>> Right, listen,
if you're really concerned about
couples increasingly refusing to
have children make the conditions
better a little more welcoming to
new parents because it's not,
it's just not in this country.
Look at how Denmark treats parents.
I mean, they get like an insane
amount of time off, right?
Paid leave, you get like a freaking
amazing luxury packed goody bag at
the hospital after you give birth.
Like it's amazing.
Like it's almost as if they value
human lives and want to
provide support for their citizens.
It's great. It's nuts.
It really is.
It's crazy.
>> So guys, I don't have apparently
a controversial opinion.
I don't care if you have
kids or not.
Yeah. >> It's hashtag freedom.
Why do I care?
>> Look, I don't care either.
But I do care about making this
a welcoming country for
parents who do for couples who do
want to have children.
>> No, no, I think we should give
them support.
I said we should do the safety net.
So that in case you want to have
kids, which a lot of people
want to have kids.
Obviously, we help those families.
If you have family values,
you would want to help family's.
>> Family values is just
a campaigning prop.
>> Which they don't even
use anymore because they're
even they're so embarrassed of what
donald trump and
his porn star mistress is that they
dropped a family values thing.
It became inconvenient.
They've never believe it.
>> Family that he had families with
different women, it's okay.
>> Yes, he had
families with multiple women and
then cheated on them, etc.
So look, bottom line is if
you want to have a family,
we should support you.
If you don't want to have a family
to whatever you want.
It's a free country.
I don't understand why the right
wing wants to control every part of
your life have kids.
I'm going to force you to
have kids.
Shut up and go away.
We're Americans.
We like to be free.