Population Growth & Control - Fertility, Recession, United Nations, Government

• "the state will see strikingly low birthrates for the rest of the decade"
• "they weren't producing enough children to replace the parents"
• "Latinos has fallen by more than 20 percent since 2007, a seismic shift that normally takes decades."
• "All of these trends across all ethnic groups will have lasting consequences"
• "children born during this baby bust could have an easier time in life, as they might face less competition when applying for colleges and jobs."

• "the number of children — defined as people up to 17 years old — has dropped from 181,532 in 1960 to 107,524 today"
   
• "The decrease is disappointing news for city officials"

• "In 2007, there were 69.7 babies per 1,000 women of childbearing age. Provisional data for 2010 showed that number had dropped to 64.7."
   
• "During the Great Depression, the fertility rate fell to 76.15. During the oil shock decade of the 1970s, it plunged to 64.99."
   
• "The actual number of births from 2008 to 2009 rose only in one state, North Dakota, which also posted one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates at 3.1%."

• "There were a record number of births just as the United States was falling into recession in 2007, when 4,316,233 babies were born. Since then, the number of births has fallen, with provisional data provided by Pew indicating that births totaled about 4,007,000 last year."
•  short-term decreases in house prices typically lead to an decline in births among people who own their own home

• “If the number of dependents drops relative to the whole population, you’ll have fewer working families supporting retiring seniors.”

• "Baby Steps presents a fascinating glance at our cultural and technological possibilities for a more gender-fluid and nurture-centered future." -- Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage
   

• "Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States.
• ...from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, including forced sterilization for women"

• Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.”

• "The number of single women undergoing IVF has risen still further, going up from 347 in 2007 to 1,070 in 2009."

"The U.N. Population Fund reveals that true concern for humans on Earth means not producing any."
"avoiding one billion new babies by 2050 would save as much energy as building two million one-megawatt wind turbines."

• "In January 2009 President Barack Obama restored US funding to UNFPA, saying in a public statement that he would "look forward to working with Congress to restore US financial support for the UN Population Fund. By resuming funding to UNFPA, the US will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries."

• "Buffet also provided $2 million to the Family Health International (FHI) for quinicrine hydrochloride, a drug which is used to perform chemical sterilizations on women. Inserted into the uterus, the powerful acid burns away the lining of the upper uterus and fallopian tubes, rendering a woman sterile. The Vietnamese and Indian governments have sterilized tens of thousands of poor women using this method, many without their foreknowledge or consent."

• "To date, the U.S. Census Bureau has only released counts of gay and lesbian coupled households, but as more information is released, we will be able to determine the number of children living in these households, income, racial profile, home ownership and other important demographics. These facts will help us dispel stereotypes and present a fuller, more accurate picture of the gay and lesbian family in America"