Evie Webb

I'm not particularly concerned about the declining U.S. birth rate. I mean, like we already have big enough issues with like homelessness and stuff as it is. I think the biggest issue there is like, you know, a declining population is less able to take care of like an aging elderly population. But.

I, at least personally, I just think that that is not as big a concern as like other strains on resources from overpopulation.

There's good evidence to show that things like actually increasing access to abortion and contraception, as well as sex education, increase the birth rate. More than that, things like economic stability always contribute to a better birth rate. I do not currently have children, but I do plan to have some once I'm out of college.

Waiting until you are a fully mature adult in an economically stable and responsible place is, I think, exactly what we should be doing before having kids. It doesn't hurt them any for their parents to be slightly older, but it helps them so much for them to be like, fully mature.

I know that my parents were very young when they had me, and as I was growing up, they were still struggling with a lot of, like, themselves also sort of having to grow up along with that. Another thing to keep in mind is that, like, pregnancy and childbirth is very dangerous. So I do also think that, like, that is something that needs to be taken into account.

Like, what sort of pressures are we putting on people to do something that is this dangerous for their health? Like, even if they want to.