By Don Feder – – Sunday, May 14, 2023
Mother’s Day should be about more than cards and candy, flowers and fine sentiments. As we move into the desolate wasteland of demographic winter, mothers assume a role of paramount importance.
If humanity is to have a future, it lies with them.
The left can’t even say the word mother but instead prattles about “birthing persons,” so as not to offend the sensibilities of men who think they’re women but — how to put it — can’t deliver. Influencer Dylan Mulvaney can ruin the sales of Bud Light, but mom material he’s not.
Despite forecasts that countries like Japan and South Korea (with abysmal fertility rates of 1.3 and 0.78, respectively) could soon close up shop, and America — with significantly below-replacement fertility for more than a decade — heading in the same direction, the anti-human left still peddles its overpopulation delusions.
Author Paul R. Ehrlich is still trying to detonate the population bomb he wrote about in the 1960s. Climate czar John Kerry is still getting all Chicken Little over ice caps that don’t melt and sea levels that refuse to rise.
Harry and Meghan, the duke and duchess of “What’s Happening Now,” virtue signal by announcing they won’t have more than two children to sustained applause by the population-control crowd.
Having run out of ways to avoid confronting reality, in its May 4 issue, the pop-science Scientific American says that depopulation will be a boon for the ecosystem and will “help create a future with more opportunity” for everyone. But this is whistling past humanity’s graveyard.
What’s driving the birth dearth is no secret. People aren’t marrying. Those who do aren’t having enough children. A fertility rate of 2.1 is needed just to replace current population. America’s is 1.78 and falling. As a society, we are prioritizing careers, cars, vacations and IRAs — anything and everything over securing the future.
As a result, we are heading for a crisis few expected.
Continue reading: Mothers are the gateway to tomorrow – Washington Times
• Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times and the Ruth Institute’s Coalitions Director.