U.S. birth rates slide as Millennials enter the age of marriage and childbearing

[Indy Texas]

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/millenials-not-having-babies/391721/#disqus_thread

Is this cause for concern? If so, what, if anything, should or can the government do to increase the number of children being born?

Another question, mainly for Forumites between 22 and 30 -- how many people within your peer group who are within that age range have children? Are they married?

While I know many people who are married (some of whom have been married since shortly after finishing college), none who I can think of off the top of my head have children. One co-worker is pregnant, so that number will increase to one soon.

[Indy Texas]

Immigration will be more than enough to continue growing the country's population at a healthy clip. The countries that have to worry about demographic decline are mostly in Eastern Europe.

Even assuming they do, immigrants to the US tend to be (by US standards) relatively poor people looking for a ground-floor fresh start. If you have a population of children that is overwhelmingly poor and overwhelmingly of foreign origins, how do you convince native adult voters to be willing to part with their tax dollars to invest in their human capital? We're already having that problem as old white voters elect politicians who seek to slash funding to the local public schools that are now full of "little brown ones."