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.”
He mostly focuses on the under 20 demographic, though later he also is concerned about under 30, but most of his response centers around the figures he cited exclusively about under 20.
It’s plainly clear he thinks we need a bit more irresponsibility in child rearing. He may not be personally interested in the age bracket, but he does absolutely want them getting pregnant.
Which on the surface of it is a way to get more people generally, but also a way to increase the particularly desperate labor pool that is ripe for exploitation in 15 years or so.
Upon further consideration, it actually creates a more desperate labor pool immediately. Instead of unattached 18 year olds that can spend a few years in university, you have teen parents that need to take care of things right now.