#Family Size

[buffetlicious]

This Family size Chicken Pie (S$33.80) is from Chicken Pie Kitchen. See the six humps on the pastry? There are formed by layering the pastry over six hard-boiled egg (half an egg each) so you know where to slice the pie up. Filled with flavourful softened potato, carrot, peas and chunky chicken cubes in flaky pie crust. We have been buying it since before he sold off the (old) company and established this new business years later. The price has inflated from S$19.90 to the current S$33.80 unfortunately.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Anyone can get elected in California, yes even Rachel!

"Having a smaller family reduces our impact on the Earth, and provides a better chance for all our children, their children and future generations to flourish on a healthy planet,” the charity said in a statement. “We commend the duke and duchess for taking this enlightened decision, and for affirming that a smaller family is also a happy family.”

The couple told British Vogue in 2019 that they were planning “two maximum” to reduce their impact on the environment."

[dani-dimitrescu]

My personal headcanon of their height.

Because I like the idea of the daughters being freakishly tall like their mother :)

"Tiny" Dani

And Bela is mad that her younger sister is taller than her. And Cassandra loves teasing her about that.

[kkarmalade]

I have like 1000 of these.

[spiritualdirections]

Falling birth rate not due to less desire to have children

This article has been written in several forms over several decades. People want to have more children than they actually end up having. I read a version of it, also using the NSFG data set, that found that women used to be pretty good at predicting how many children they would have, but then as they started delaying marriage for the sake of work, they became pretty bad about predicting their future fertility. This study emphasizes that people today want kids, they just aren't having them. That suggests that there's something about our culture which is getting in the way of people being able to have the families they desire. There are many explanations of why family sizes are shrinking that assume people don't want kids; this data shows that they want them, they just aren't that good at getting what they want. Perhaps they need to move out of the cities, or have their payroll taxes reduced, or have better childcare and parental leave policies available. They certainly need to get married and start having kids earlier if they want to reach their goals. In any case, if we adopt the modern view of government that it is supposed to help people live out their own life plans, then the gap between wanted and actual children is something policymakers should consider as important.

'The researchers used data from the National Survey of Family Growth, which has been asking people about their childbearing goals and behaviors for several decades. The NSFG doesn’t interview the same people each time, but it allowed the researchers to track a group of people born around the same time – a cohort, as scientists call these groups – as they passed through their childbearing years.

'They looked at 13 cohorts of women and 10 cohorts of men born between the 1960s and the 2000s. They were all asked how many children they intended to have, if any.

'Americans have been pretty consistent with how many children they say they want to have from the 60s to the 2000s,” Hayford said. “Men generally say they want slightly fewer children than women do, but, like women, their preferred number of children hasn’t changed much.”

'The percentage of people who said they don’t plan to have any children has increased, from about 5-8% in the 1960s and 1970s to 8-16% in the 1990s and 2000s.  But that alone can’t explain the decline in the number of babies being born. Hayford noted that the number of unintended births, especially among people in their 20s, has declined in recent decades, which has helped reduce the birth rate.

'“But that doesn’t change the fact that people aren’t having as many children as they say they want, especially at earlier ages,” Hayford said. “It may be that they’re going to have those kids when they’re 35, but maybe they won’t.”

'For example, the study found some evidence that people are reducing the number of children they say they intend to have as they get older. “As they age, they may be realizing how hard it is to have kids and raise kids in the United States and they’re saying they only want to have the one child, and don’t want a second one,” she said.

'In addition, would-be parents may have more difficult conceiving as they get older.

'Larger economic and social forces are also having an impact on birth rates. The birth rate declined significantly during the Great Recession that started in 2008, which is a typical response to an economic downturn. However, the birth rate continued to decline even after the recession was over, Hayford said.

'This study ended before COVID-19, but the pandemic served as another fertility shock, at least at first. “It remains to be seen whether fertility will be able to rebound not just from the Great Recession, but from the pandemic as well,” she said.

'For those who are concerned about America’s dropping birth rates, this study suggests that there is no need to pressure young people into wanting more kids, Hayford said. “We need to make it easier for people to have the children that they want to have,” she said.  “There are clear barriers to having children in the United States that revolve around economics, around child care, around health insurance.”

[liberty1776]

People old enough to remember the Before Time – i.e., the time when in most everyday matters, people who weren’t causing harm were generally free to do as they liked – know what it was like to be a parent or a child and go for a drive in those times. As opposed to what it’s like now. More finely, – what it requires you to have and to pay for now. J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-president pick, got heckled for saying out loud that government-mandated “safety” seats for kids are an effective form of birth control. But he’s right. For … Continue reading →

[tanagause]

🥣🥪

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission

[rink3]

Sebastian chilling on the surface bc he deserves it

[kootorii]

Tea Recipe This refreshing tea contains fresh peaches and is perfect for a summer day.

[tasiaadams33]

Utz No Salt Added Original Chips Is Amazing.

[tenth-sentence]

Cobb had advanced the basic point that in any society allowing greater social advantage to the members of small rather than of large families, temperamental qualities making for de facto sterility would tend to rise in the social scale.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[worldwidesale]

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[chinelacanta]

i like to think that ever since they met it was mutually ON SIGHT bullying <3

they’re both losers (said with love)