Wretchard — You are correct. However, the contraceptive factories of condoms and the pill can keep running long enough to keep most of the “West” including Asia running along from variants to say, France and Greece and the UK, beset by poor, un-Western Islamic populations with subjugated women and the constant street and PC battles to further Islamicize society into Big Men and Harems (with slaves and jihadis outside), to say ever-declining Japan, awash in weird tentacle pr0n stuff.
The US birthrates are propped up by Mexican immigrant (largely single) mothers. Its unlikely their children will vary significantly from what they were in Mexico. Or be willing to support older, childless Anglos or Blacks.
Ruby — Single women outnumber married women for the first time, in US History. Also marriage rates are dramatically declining, and the age of first marriage is ever increasing (probably related to high divorce rates). The nuclear family is essentially dead. I’ve blogged on this extensively, the data from the US Census Bureau show it pretty much dead — White illegitimate rates went from 4% in 1965 to 41% in 2006. Hispanic is even higher, Black is 70%. Your table does not go by percentage of population. Men age 25 were married at least once 70% from 1940-44, and declined to less than 40% by 1974. In 2004, that had declined to 17% for the age bucket 20-24 (ever married).
Let’s review: 1940-44, men age 25 were 70% married. By 2004, men age 20-24 were only 17% married. While not a true apples to apples comparison, you can’t miss the huge trendline.
Karen — Hymnowitz misses the mark. In both Child-Man and the Love in the Time of Darwinism post, up currently at City Journal, she as an older woman, can’t understand the reality of the Pill and Condom: around 70% or so of single women monopolized by about 30% or so of men. That’s the reality of “soft polygamy” and too many young men with no hope or connection to women simply out of any ambition and retreat to childish diversions. She also uses Apatow movies instead of stats and real-life studies to butress her points and makes frankly STUPID comments such as “most people are too busy getting their master’s to date in their twenties.” US Census Bureau has stats: only between 6-9% of men or women depending on age groups have Masters or better. I’m just Joe Blow and *I* could find that info in five minutes at the Census Bureau. Older women in particular have no clue as to how RADICALLY different sexual behavior is for women or what younger people are like in social behaviors. The latest survey, which take with a grain of salt, has the average age of British women’s loss of virginity at 16, nine sexual partners by age 21, two more than men that age, with 25% women having MORE than ten partners five years past virginity, compared with only 20% of men 5 years past virginity. Fifty percent admitted cheating on a partner, half of those admitted to being unfaithful more than once. However 99% say a male partner cheating would cause them to dump them.
The pill and condom enables women to chase after and have sex with the few high testosterone, high status, high powered men. Of which there are only a few. Then as the fertility window closes, women complain about the quality of men they have to choose from (mid thirties onward) and pursue single motherhood on their “own” terms. The survey above demonstrates MARKET POWER by women, who do the deciding, who are pursued by men their own age and men ten years older (in prime desirable years aka 22-32) and perhaps even cohorts 15 years older. Who have sex with men who are spendthrifts but avoid thrifty men (note no link for women between spending and sex).
The pill and the condom change women’s selection to pure physical and emotional stimulation of the moment. This is a radical change from selection critieria of “good husband and father” since neither are needed with wealth and state money and most critically control of their own biology.
People are not being single, mostly childless people, with motherhood defined as single motherhood because they rejected God or Christianity. They rejected God and Christianity as a side effect of society being skewed to single female norms. Which was enabled by the Pill and the Condom.
