Re: 42% of American Women are Child-Free!

Europeans are doing a far better job than Americans at being child-free. However, this has impacted their ability to finance their social programs, which have been built on assumptions of population stability. One of the solutions they have sought is immigration, but the downside of that is that it threatens to remake the social and political character of the continent, and not necessarily for the better.

The problem is that far more than flesh and blood are transmitted from generation to generation. The result is that a child-free attitude is a vote for cultural as well as familial extinction. Given what our culture has to offer compared to the alternatives, I would call that a most unfortunate outcome.