Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications (birth, options, parents)
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The population in Capracotta has dramatically aged and contracted — from about 5,000 people to 800. The town’s carpentry shops have shut down. The organizers of a soccer tournament struggled to form even one team.
About a half-hour away, in the town of Agnone, the maternity ward closed a decade ago because it had fewer than 500 births a year, the national minimum to stay open. This year, six babies were born in Agnone.
“Once, you could hear the babies in the nursery cry, and it was like music,” said Enrica Sciullo, a nurse who used to help with births there and now mostly takes care of older patients. “Now there is silence and a feeling of emptiness.”
In a speech this month during a conference on Italy’s birthrate crisis, Pope Francis said the “demographic winter” was still “cold and dark.”
More people in more countries may soon be searching for their own metaphors. Birth projections often shift based on how governments and families respond, but according to projections by an international team of scientists published last year in The Lancet, 183 countries and territories — out of 195 — will have fertility rates below replacement level by 2100.
I wonder how this will impact adoptions? Adoption professionals state that domestic adoptions are increasing slightly, that prediction seems flawed.
I wonder how this will impact adoptions? Adoption professionals state that domestic adoptions are increasing slightly, that prediction seems flawed.
I'm surprised it didn't mention adoption, it touched a little on infertility which will be happening to more and more women as they put off having a family in their early 30's until age 35ish. I'm seeing it with a few reality shows I watch. There's one gal that's aging up there, about 37. She badly wants at least one, maybe 2 but her now husband says he's not financially able to allow her to have a child. I guess it's never occurred to either of them that it will be more of a miracle if she does get pregnant since she's older. She comes from Ukraine, so maybe she doesn't realize that fertility decreases in our 30's. The same will be true for others like her who have to wait.
We both know that the number of adoptable babies and toddlers has been going down for many years, with agencies having maybe 15 babies a year that do get successfully placed for adoption, when they have hundreds of couples waiting for the same 15 babies.
There will always be unplanned pregnancies that happen to young people or young people who's birth control failed. The difference now is that a lot decide to keep their babies. With the internet, some are realizing that what adoptive parents promise as an open adoption most likely will close once the ink is dry. There's also help from the government which my generation did not have and a decent court system where single mothers can get child support fairly easy. With a DNA paternity test, it's a lot easier for the single mother to prove the man is the father of her child.
Thank God! This is the solution to global warming, and likely will also greatly reduce war, improve quality of life for the entire world's population.
I've always said that the solution to all of the world's woes is to educate girls and women, and give them free access to birth control/family planning measures. Virtually all women, given the opportunity, will delay childbearing until their 20's assuming that they have the chance to get an education and work, and will choose to limit their family size, given the choice. The resultant decrease in world population would take care of everything else.
There is hope for the world, if only we can implement these measures. Unfortunately, the resurgence of traditional Islam (I won't call it radical, because it's not radical - that just is the true face of Islam) amongst the world's nearly two billion Muslims may stymie this population decrease, as Islam promotes keeping women at home bearing many children. Other extremist versions of some religions promote this, too, but their percentage of the world's population is so miniscule as to have essentially no effect on world population.
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