Speaking of polls…

By on Jul 22, 2018

This one is also most revealing and what it reveals is not good. It does however go a long way in explaining much of what you see on College campuses. Of course, you don’t know how much of Times survey you can believe but either way the results are telling for the country.

Climate ‘worry’ ranks at bottom of New York Times survey – ‘Worry about climate change’ at 17th out of 18 reasons for not having kids

By: Climate DepotJuly 13, 2018 12:08 PM

Via: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/upshot/americans-are-having-fewer-babies-they-told-us-why.html

By Claire Cain Miller
July 5, 2018

Americans are having fewer babies. At first, researchers thought the declining fertility rate was because of the recession, but it kept falling even as the economy recovered. Now it has reached a record low for the second consecutive year.

In the Morning Consult and Times survey, more than half of the 1,858 respondents — a nationally representative sample of men and women ages 20 to 45 — said they planned to have fewer children than their parents. About half were already parents. Of those who weren’t, 42 percent said they wanted children, 24 percent said they did not and 34 percent said they weren’t sure.