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.”
Someone should check that doctor’s hard-drives.
“We beat teen pregnancy!” - “Oh no!”
Elaborated: “Oh no! Fewer poverty-locked consumer slaves! Who do we convince breast feeding is unhealthy and peddle formula to? How will we paint immigration as a bad thing if unemployment goes down? What if - heaven forbid - social mobility goes up?”
How do we blackmail people with no children to work shit jobs?
Thats all they care about. Bodies to feed the machine. Gross psychophants. Course kids are more conscious of pregnancy. Just cause theyre young you think theyll give their kids up to governemtn to fight some selfish bigoted war just to die, then work poverty levels never own a home just to feed the 401K of some billionaire while theyre surviving on cheese and crackers. Ugh I HATE these people!!!
Low birth rate, low immigration, government deep in debt. This looks bad for US retirement plans.
Sounds like he’s one step away from suggesting the law be changed so he can impregnate them.
This is actually one of the only demographics where fertility has fallen. Adult women have been having more or less the same amount of kids for a while now
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.
WTF
I knew someone who was by her own description baby-crazy as a teen and basically seeked out someone to knock her up. Hormones are wild things sometimes. Her child did not repeat the cycle fortunately
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.
My wife has one branch of her family where 4 generations occured in a 60 year period, the 5 generation photos are pretty neat, and also I’m really happy for the last generation which broke the cycle.
Being a teen mom sky rockets the chance your children will become parents as teens
Yep, my best friend had his first child at 17 and now that child is 18 with 2 kids already.
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.
Mentally insane
Damn these (slur) and their delicious food and beautiful decor and lovely music! Damn them! Get out get out get out! And dont come back! (But i would like a refill on my horchata please)
That is almost 1:1 what she says.
I hate them as real things, but thryre amazing jokes.
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.
Global population growth is happening. Slowing down, but looks inevitable for at least several more decades. Given that baseline, it is optimal for all countries involved to allow immigration from countries with population growth (reduces strain on government services, adds to the economy with remittances) to countries with lower birth rates (tax revenues support social service budgets, increased entrepreneur rate of immigrants increases job growth, etc.)
Economies can transition to population decline while maintaining standards of living for sure, if handled in a planned way. Some short-term pain during the transition, then fine later. But why go through a combination of short-term pain right now, at the same time as incredible cruelty is required to keep out migrants?
A path to degrowth will be needed globally in the medium-term future (finite planet), but trying to implement that now at just the US locally isn’t going to help the planet at all.
Did you not understand that I was talking about immigration? Which is one of the ways we solve that. All of that.
Besides which we’re actually talking about keeping the population stable. A declining population is bad for everyone economically. Luckily population growth naturally slows down in modernized societies, which is why allowing people to immigrate is good for everyone.
great for america
Oof. Not the selling point you think it is.
makes the world a better place
Theres your problem.
There’s nothing wrong with doing things that are (legitimately) great for America. I’d love to do things that are great for Russia and Israel too… but it’s unlikely that the leadership in those countries would consider them “great” actions.
Im saying they dont see it as a selling point. Im speaking of a third party’s perspective here. This is a really really basic level of abstraction imusing here, cmon.
Who are the “they” that you are referring to? MAGA? Other countries?
This is incredibly tedious. What the fuck?
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.
You hit the nail in the coffin, pedophile class is concerned their available victims are declining.
Think of the children('s abusers)!
Party of pedophiles
Those 30 years old grandmas will be so proud
🤢
So that’s how they are now making pedophilia more accepted…… this is just great….
Just means better gilf porn for me. Ir ggilf when grandmas start happening in their twenties?
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!!!
Thats the thing! You dont pay any of that at 14!
Rich people hoarding money away the rest is what causes less births.
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.
Yeah. Republican donors.
He’s probably already on a certain list. Should we check?
Unfortunately, child marriage is still legal in a shocking number of states
Is it illegal between two underage people? Seriously asking, not from us.
Most places in the united states have ‘romeo and juliet’ style laws, where two people who are within a certain age range (usually 1-4 years) aren’t (necessarily) breaking the law, even if one is underage.
It depends on the jurisdiction.
It can be. Even just taking a nude photo of your own body as a minor is a crime in the US.
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.
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)
