What does the birth rate say about the US economy?

I'd like to see the head scratching if the Koch brothers started donating large sums of money to Planned Parenthood claiming unwanted children are a drag on the economy.

 

It is estimated that 50 million babies were aborted. Doesn't take a genius to figure out all the wrongs of abortions. Based on what this country lost in Billions of dollars and those who might have been born geniuses.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/16/the-economic-effect-of-abortion-billions-and-billions-lost/

There is going to be crime no matter what, did you research what percentage of USA prisons are filled with illegals? Do you know the bottom line of how many BILLIONS of dollars it costs USA to have illegals in this country, educating their children, health, housing, food, education?

Oh, can you read? The Title of this Post was "US Economy" and not 195 other countries, some of which have not invented the wheel or other to grow rice where there is not ground water.

 

I think it's also attributed to neurology. Sex and drugs release a lot of the pleasure chemical DOPAMINE in the brain. Studies show that video games and electronic devices do a good job of releasing DOPAMINE as well. In fact, video games have proven to cause seizures...too much stimulation in the brain from DOPAMINE and NOREPINEPHRINE. People with ADHD get their fix from video games...for that desired DOPAMINE!

 

Thank you for that well reasoned, intelligent post. You really bring the level of discourse on this forum to a new level.

 

You are very welcome.

 

The decrease in the birthrate coincided with and was substantially the result of the advent of the birth-control pill for off-label contraceptive use the 1950s and its direct approval for contraception in 1960. This fostered not only the sexual revolution, but a social and economic rebellion of women in education and economics and the transference of reproductive-rights control from men to women. Its impact was unprecedented and enormous: The rate of women going to college and choosing a career rose substantially and, as the OP's chart suggests, pregnancies markedly declined.