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> the average American lives in a home that they own by the time they're 35 According to [1] relative monthly fertility rates for women drop from 1.0 at age 30
by michaelt 3y ago
> the average American lives in a home that they own by the time they're 35
According to [1] relative monthly fertility rates for women drop from 1.0 at age 30 to 0.65 at age 35 to 0.1 at age 40.
If your society wants to raise birth rates, you can't rely on 35-40 year olds to do it.
[1] https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/fei/at-what-age-does-fertility-begin-to-decrease/ https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/fei/at-what-age-d...
- lolinder 3y agoYou also don't actually need to own a home in order to have kids. I spent the first 8 years of my life with 3 siblings in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment in a student housing development. We bought a home when I was 8, while my parents were in their 30s. Plenty of other commenters had already pointed out that fallacy of OP's argument, so I decided to take on the idea that homeownership rates have significantly changed instead.