That is a statistic the consequences of which are going to play out the hard way and for a long long time.

To be fair the cost of having a child is exhibiting. I’d love to have more than one but with the costs of childcare we can’t afford it (and we make a ton of money)

Europeans in the 19th and 18th century had a bunch of children and they were mostly shit poor.

Right but we are in the 21st century. I’d rather have one child raised well than two I can’t provide adequately for

I've been wanting to have children for decades now, but it's only women who can choose to have children. I've been in a good enough place economically to support a family, but too many women have been brainwashed to not be interested in men like me. They only want the bad boys.

That's why European countries are literally dying out. Many women are brainwashed with feminist agenda, career is priority for them. In their late thirties they usually realise they actually would like to become mothers, but that's too late. Yeah, it's expensive to have children, but our ancestors were also poor and used to have many offspring. If we don't change it now white race will become extinct in few centuries.

Why was it higher in the 20s?

Housing and everything has risen so high that you basically need to make $200k+ just to live in middle America

Right abs we don’t make that much abs live in a high of cost area. Day care alone is 2000 a month

Millennials is the worse generation

Mission accomplished

What country is the graph for?

i am a father and believe me, one of the most precious gifts you can give a child is a sibling.

uk

When women prioritize career rather than family, beta males agree with everything the ladies say and let them control the relationship and then you add the financial ruin and illiteracy left to us by the boomers, what you have is a socio-economic collapse with regard to the western world 🌎 🤡

All planned on purpose

Only white woman

Can't agree with that one.

I really tried to see it that way.

This is the main cause of West's decline, IMO. The optimal biological age to have a baby is around 19y.

This is tragic on so many levels, but one is that if the new 31 y.o. mother has to wait 31 years to have her first, maybe only, grandchild, she will be 62 years old. What a shame! One of the many blessings of motherhood is becoming a grandmother. Sure, they're babies and young children for the next decade, but the mom is 80 years old when her first grandchild graduates from high school. Eighty years old! Whereas had she had her first child at 22, she would be a mere 62 -- if the child follows the same pattern -- when her first grandchild graduates from high school. It is naïve to think one will have the same strength and energy as she did when she was 35 for the rest of her life. Marry young and try to have all your babies before you're 30. It will pay off in the long run if you do.