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patphil

(9,381 posts)
14. Women are having fewer children because it cost so much to raise a child to 18 yrs of age.
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 12:17 PM
10 hrs ago

Nationwide average is around $300,000.
Single mom's, and there are a lot of them, have to work, which often involves expensive daycare; 200-300 or more a week.
Abortions are illegal in many states, government assistance is drying up, and the cost of living keeps rising.
Being a tradwife only works when your husband is still around and has a good enough job to support the family.

As a result, the percent of US women who never marry or never have children is rising. If the government wants more women to have more children, they'll have to make it financially easier to do so.
Support for children needs to start in prenatal care, and continue through the birth process, up until the child becomes an adult.
Republicans are never going to do this, and yet they want women to do the tradwife thing.

Of course it's more than just having kids, it's about dominating women, and stripping away their rights. My Lutheran brother-in-law had a phrase that covered the republican way they see women, "barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen".

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Emma Waters is listed as a contributor to the Project 2025 manifesto for destroying democracy. Lonestarblue 11 hrs ago #1
They also want to get rid of no fault divorce Diraven 9 hrs ago #23
This is all the beginning of taking away the 19th amendment. sagetea 10 hrs ago #2
True. But it will never happen. Wiz Imp 9 hrs ago #22
Oh, I agree! sagetea 9 hrs ago #29
"White House Assesses Ways to Persuade White Women to Have More Children," Ray Bruns 10 hrs ago #3
Exactly. What white bigots fear most is becoming the minority William Seger 10 hrs ago #5
There's a fertilitiy crisis now? WTF. Initech 10 hrs ago #4
(r) incels wonder why their hands don't get pregnant. erronis 10 hrs ago #8
Well when you spend all day inside, watching porn and talking shit about women on podcasts... Initech 10 hrs ago #10
Fertility Crisis. Wednesdays 10 hrs ago #12
Read the novel and you'll understand WHY there was a fertility crisis jmowreader 9 hrs ago #27
That's what struck me BaronChocula 9 hrs ago #28
My feeling is that men can take the trad wife crap and shove it you know where Stargazer99 10 hrs ago #6
These idgit men claim they want a "trad" wife, mwmisses4289 10 hrs ago #16
Ridiculous moose65 10 hrs ago #7
"... believe they're on a reality show." playing to that orange corpustulence. erronis 10 hrs ago #9
"White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More WHITE Children" Wednesdays 10 hrs ago #11
Charting menstrual cycles? mcar 10 hrs ago #13
Women are having fewer children because it cost so much to raise a child to 18 yrs of age. patphil 10 hrs ago #14
NYT loves to publish Liberal Nightmare Fuel. maxsolomon 10 hrs ago #15
Here's how she really looks, before AI fixed her up FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #17
Stephen Miller's wife in 10 years. rubbersole 9 hrs ago #19
Why are they giving her a platform. chowder66 9 hrs ago #18
Really???????? BurnDoubt 9 hrs ago #20
There is no fertility crisis. The earth is still way overpopulated. hamsterjill 9 hrs ago #21
Exactly what the REPUBLICNS want! some_of_us_are_sane 9 hrs ago #25
Thank you. hamsterjill 8 hrs ago #34
Well said! NNadir 9 hrs ago #26
Thank you. hamsterjill 9 hrs ago #31
I might add that the current regime's policies have led to a significant decrease in affordable health care. How does Martin68 9 hrs ago #24
Links to NYT article TommyT139 9 hrs ago #30
"endometriosis" WILL KILL YOU -- that is, it will kill women AverageOldGuy 9 hrs ago #32
That's another "woman's problem". Something the Project 2025 authors don't care about. erronis 6 hrs ago #36
A young woman i know (mid twenties) had endometriosis so bad that she had to have a hysterectomy. mwmisses4289 1 hr ago #38
I'm so glad for your friend. erronis 1 hr ago #39
They must have hit the "hideous her up" button on their AI thingy jmowreader 9 hrs ago #33
To say nothing about that "godly man" probably having multiple other partners, even marriages. erronis 6 hrs ago #37
The GOP needs more little kids to diddle Blue Owl 8 hrs ago #35
This article is a slap in the face to women for multiple reasons dlk 24 min ago #40
Objectification. Turning women into objects. erronis 17 min ago #41
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