The Single Women Transforming America’s Cultural Landscape
Women are driving the demand for the rental market according to this CNBC article:
In fact, even as housing and the greater economy improve, a shift in demographic trends will likely favor the rental apartment market for the foreseeable future. It is all about women….
“What drives demand for single family homes is, ‘Oh honey, I’m pregnant,” says Buck Horne, a housing analyst at Raymond James.
But those words are being uttered less and less. Horne claims the shift in female education, marriage and fertility rates will drive rental apartment demand going forward. He points to a growing educational imbalance, that is, 3.1 million more women enrolled in college than men and 4 million more college-educated women in the workforce than men.
“That creates a structural imbalance in the number of suitable partners. Women leave college with good income prospects and are not finding suitable husbands and fathers,” says Horne.
Consequently, the millennial generation is delaying marriage and motherhood, and birth and fertility rates are dropping. The female fertility rate is at its lowest level in recorded U.S. history, according to the Centers for Disease Control/Raymond James research. 41 percent of children are born out of wedlock. Horne’s research finds single mothers prefer living closer in to cities and staying in full amenity apartment rentals. This all points to more structural, long-term demand for rental housing.
Though this article is concerned about the impact of renters on the long term structure on the housing market, my main concern is the impact of single women and mothers on the structure of our culture and government. Will they demand a “full amenity” government just as they do a full amenity apartment rental?
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Cross-posted from Dr. Helen
“Will they demand a “full amenity” government just as they do a full amenity apartment rental?”
Well, this is one single woman who won’t. Never have, never will.
Count me as #2.
Who will pay for a “full amenity” government?
Women who leave college with good income prospects or men who earn less?
Women are paying for alimonies too.
Women (and men) are deferring marriage and family during this depression, just as they did during the first Great Depression.
The only difference is that this depression is only in its beginning stages. On account of crushing governmental regulation, skyrocketing national debt, and legislation specifically intended to kill jobs, this one will last for decades.
Look for a demographic crash, big time.
If you are young and want to start a family, look for a country that does NOT claim to have a “social safety net” (not a Muslim country of course!), pull up stakes, and go there. NOW.
This is at least in part by design. Socialism creates low fertility rates, especially among the middle class. Look at Europe, the middle class has a birth rate averaging 1 or less because after taxes and such most people simply can’t afford to have children, it’s only the Muslim immigrants who rely upon the welfare system who have high fertility rates. They’re creating the same conditions here: the middle class won’t be able to afford children, or at least far fewer, while the welfare classes will continue to proliferate unimpeded because they don’t pay for their children anyway. The middle class has throughout history been the greatest threat to the elite ruling class and unlimited power, the model they prefer is lords and serfs. Crashing the economy to create conditions unfavorable for middle class people to start families while supporting unlimited immigration and welfare is a very effective way to bring this about in a couple decades. Furthermore, people tend to become more conservative as they mature, start a family, buy a house, pay taxes, etc. By preventing many people in my generation from ever having those life experiences they’ll help preserve a liberal voting block to further expand their power. It’s diabolical, but effective.
Helen, what do you mean by full amenity government? Examples?
I’m all for ending the anxiety and needless suffering these young women are enduring. I’d like to help organize them into a movement to end all the needless suffrage they’re being subjected to.
I’ll bet I could convince a significant number of the mindless airheads…er,…um, young women to join me.
Just the hot and willing ones, eh?
Wouldn’t be a harem, would it?
You really should get back to Washington, Senator Menendez.
It’s a joke. Women’s suffrage? The right to vote? It obviously went right over your head. It’s a comment about how these women vote.
Yeah, I get it. Mine was a joke, too. Lighten up…
“Will women demand a full amenity government?”
Uh … they already are (sandra fluke, “Julia”, results of 2012 general election).
The seeds were planted a long time ago, and now’s the foul harvest.
This topic reminds me of your post on how you change lightbulbs and do other more complex repairs, in part to help your busy husband. Single women don’t have the time and sometimes don’t have the expertise to do many household repairs, so renting is a good choice. But as your other post explained, learning how to do mundane repairs is empowering because it makes us feel competent and in control. Ordering a maintenance man to do those repairs may be satisfying but it isn’t the same thing, and it may even contribute to a service culture that expects someone else to be in charge.
That sheds new light on something the local government is doing. They are building new public housing and refurbishing other similar units. All this work will be done with “the best” of everything such as granite countertops and tile floors in the bathrooms. Since a lot of the residents of such housing around here are indeed single females, I guess they are trying to make it so nice they never want to get off the dole and live in lower standard housing they pay for themselves.
A question for Dr. Helen: What does this trend imply for birthrates? The same apartment development is to be seen here in Germany where I live and the birthrate here is 1.34 children per woman, 2.1 children being necessary just for reproduction. Within a 100 years, given a continuation of the demographics, there will be 50% less Germanic DNA carriers on this world and in 200 years there will be pratically NONE. Would the following inference be correct: Will the trend noted take the US on the same path to extinction that the German women (and gladly accepted by the men as they hop about and hop upon and hop away from responsiblity) have joyous initiated as liberation?
Feminism will not rest until all mothers are “single” and most women are not mothers. Feminism will not be curbed by a female-majority electorate. Society will not survive the destruction of the family.
This is the inevitable result of universal suffrage, and is playing out in every democratic society that has embraced “equality”. It seems to take about a century, but no culture that becomes dominated by female sensibilities is viable over the long term. Nature can be denied for only so long.