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.”
I have a female coworker and her daughter is currently eight months pregnant at 14 with a 17-year-old father. She couldn’t be happier. She is also a hardcore republican and a diehard Trump supporter.
Ruin your kids life early that is the republican motto. Trap them in never ending wage slavery.
Yep exactly, it runs in her family. She was pregnant with her first baby at 15 and her husband was in his early 40’s. Her husband is older than her dad by 5 years. She is currently 41 and her husband is 73. She also has a younger sister like 5 years younger and I believe she basically did the same thing being pregnant at 15-16 with a much older man.
I don’t like your coworker.
Sounds like she has a sweet trailer.
Actually, no, she lives in an old rundown house that has a bunch of Trump Flags and signs and she lives across the street from a Mexican restaurant and she absolutely hates the Mexicans, but loves eating there every night.
Oh no! Sex ed is working and preventing non-ideal pregnancies?! The sky must be falling!
The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.
There’s actually another way to keep the population up, and it’s great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.
Or maybe we give up on an economic model that requires unending population growth? Since you know, we live on a finite planet?
We have to find a path to degrowth. Stop repeating talking points that imply population growth is our only path forward.
Of course this is a major problem for the pedophile class. For the last 250 years the American Empire was able to function thanks to a countless number of uneducated people locked into perpetual poverty, having children at 14.
Those 30 years old grandmas will be so proud
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So that’s how they are now making pedophilia more accepted…… this is just great….
Party of pedophiles
Rich people hoarding money away the rest is what causes less births.
The Hundred Year Reign Of The Trumps needs soldiers
Lol yeah I bet it is $140 for a handful of things at Kroger and $45 at the pump plus $2,000 rent who’s having kids!!!
The real problem is education. Why 15 to 19 because if they are not stupid they are at least a bit ignorant. If we do not increase our strategic reserve of stupidity and ignorance there is no way we can increase fertility with low taxes and no social safety nets.
And forced marriages are also very Jesusy.
He’s advocating for girls under 18 to have children? 18 is the age of majority. If he’s advocating for sexual contact with children, he needs to be put on a list.
He’s probably already on a certain list. Should we check?
Is it illegal between two underage people? Seriously asking, not from us.
Usually, but in sane places it isn’t enforced in most cases.
This is one of those things that just can’t be true. (Regarding consensual sex)
Depends on the state, but I think mostly yes.
Like many laws, statutory rape is often inconsistently applied. The most likely scenario is that someone with societal power uses it as a lever to impose their will. Cops rarely, if ever, go looking for someone to protect through enforcement of the law.
It can be. Even just taking a nude photo of your own body as a minor is a crime in the US.
Unfortunately, child marriage is still legal in a shocking number of states
I’m going nuts. I’m from Russia, and Russian officials say insane stuff, and then I read news from the US, and it’s the same shit, side view.
Why? Its insane, and it only gets worse. When I lived in the US during Tramp’s first term, it wasn’t that crazy, despite having± same names in high places. Now, it’s like another country, and too much alike my insane motherland. USA, you’re becoming what you hate the most!
Looneytunes, all of them. ☠️
USA, you’re becoming what you hate the most!
For ~40% of Americans, this isn’t true. They hate Democrats more.
I think not having kids is the only realistic way to fight those capitalistic overlords. They can’t continue to get richer if the workforce, who does all the dirty work for them, keeps shrinking.
The issue, though, is that when only Conservatives have kids, the next generation grows up even more Conservative.
I don’t get what is so fucking hard for these pedophile conservative fucks to understand. When you make life fucking impossible to live, no one wants to bring a child into the world.
Instead, their response is, “if we fuck children, we can raise the birth rate.”
Fuck these ghouls. They just all need to die already.
Fuck these ghouls
Absolutely not.
Also I’m not young enough for them apparently.
They dont care how hard life is for people, they desperatly need more lives to ruin.
People lived horrible lives in previous ages and still had lots of kids. Of course the answer to that was plenty of rape. Buuuut they don’t see that as a problem so…it isn’t about understanding, it’s about a complete lack of empathy.
People lived horrible lives in previous ages and still had lots of kids. Of course the answer to that was plenty of rape.
Actually, lack of reliable contraception was a much bigger contributer to the higher birthrate than rape.
