Opinion: Right to Utah, have more children – Daily Utah Chronicle

Utah has the largest average family size in the country. This is no surprise to someone who lives here. Families of six or seven children are the relative norm.

Then it may be disorienting to hear about the birth rate of the wider side.

People do not have enough children to replace the previous generation. In 2023, the rate of fertility of America fell to historically low.

This may look amazing personal. But as always, the personal is political.

Falling births are a political problem. Without a younger generation, the programs that aging citizens rely on, suffer and the country loses its ability to innovation.

Currently, those who are calling for political decisions on this issue do so for the wrong reasons. This should not be.

Progressives can and should hug the family. Having children is a noble endeavor. It is good for the individual and is good for the country.

Utah is something. We need more children.

What is confused

The most common question of the aging population is the loss of social security networks.

After all, everyone will reach the age when they can no longer work. At that time, they will rely on programs such as social security and Medicare.

However, if there are not enough young people, there are not enough employment citizens who pay taxes to support these programs.

This problem is everywhere. Throughout the world, developed nations reach the state of population decline.

South Korea, for example, has the most birth rate in the world, with 0.72 births per woman. The degree of replacement is 2.1.

South Korea’s population tends to reduce half within 50 years. The public effects of this are stunning.

It becomes impossible to have a serviceman without a population to draw. For the nation bordering North Korea, the dangers of this are obvious. As a strict shortage of workers, the economy is focused on a collapse.

And for the young population that exists, the problems of loneliness, social fragmentation and division are worsening only by the severe shortage of people.

Americans have to pay attention to this because we are moving in the same direction. What happened in South Korea can do without intervention, will happen here.

Unfortunately, in the current bizarre political climate, pro-Radolism is often supported by seriously dubious characters.

JD VANCE is the most visible protalistic politician on the American scene today. He is known for ridiculously offensive comments about “childless cat ladies.”

Vance said, “They are unhappy in their own lives and the choice they have made, and so they want to make the rest of the country unhappy.”

He, like many conservatives, uses the protalistic cause to support anti-abortions and blame feminism for public trouble. Accepted to the extreme, the conversation about the needy children can become ominous.

It can be armed to undress women from their autonomy or as an attempt to re -institutional forced gender standards.

However, it does not need to be this way. The proactive cause does not need to contradict feminism.

Women today have less babies than they would like. A world that really wants women to have free choice will also create conditions for motherhood.

We should not allow people with ominous last motives to dominate the conversation surrounding the country’s need for children. This is a conversation about young, educated, progressive individuals, who also.

Development economist Dean Spears said, “If we wait, less inclusive, less compassionate, less calm elements in our society … can one day call a crisis depopulation and operate it to meet their programs. “

Not a doomed mission

For many young people, the conversation surrounding future family planning is marked by pessimism and a sense of doom for the future.

However, a broader historical perspective shows that a sense of doom towards raising children is part of being human. The world has always had its crises.

For us, this is climate change. For those who decide to have children in the 1960s, it was a growing conflict with Russia, which seemed to cause a nuclear war.

Through all the great crises of humanity, those before us continued to have children.

This is a radical act of hope that is still fruitful to this day.

Kate Marvel, a climatologist in Colombia, said in an interview with New York Times: “I unambiguously reject, scientifically and personally, the idea that children are somehow doomed to an unhappy life.”

Policies

In order to encourage people to have more children, we need to create conditions where people want to bring children.

This means cultural changes to the prioritization of marriage and family. As much as it may sound, families create good societies. The sequence of “take a job, get married, there are children” is good.

At the government level, both sides must work tirelessly to expand tax loans for children. Progressive family maintenance policies as universal pre-K and paid family leave should be prioritized in campaigns.

Ross blows said that there is a “silent anti -family spirit” in the blue culture.

He is right in that. This is something that democratic culture must work from within, for the benefit of all of us.

Looking at our future, young people everywhere need to take a serious virtue of having children today. We must resist the desire to dwell on the ideology of doom.

Having children means hope. This is also our only hope for a stable society tomorrow.

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