She wasn’t lying.
In 2018, Alison Brie told a U.K. publication that she didn’t “really want to have kids.” And if celebrity “news” can be trusted, the actress turned 40 today, and is doubtless delighted to be child-free.
Brie — Trudy Campbell in the drama Mad Men, Annie Edison in the sitcom Community, and Ruth Wilder in the dramedy GLOW — has been married (to a man) since 2017, but considers the couple’s felines to be their “children.” (“I think about how much we’re involved in our cats’ lives. Oh my God, if it was a child!”)
In 2022, a plethora of high-profile gals hit the big four-oh, unburdened by motherhood. Zero offspring for Brie’s Community costar Gillian Jacobs. Gina Carano may be a free-speech hero to right-wingers, but she ignored social conservatives’ precept to be fruitful and multiply. Elizabeth Moss has an Emmy and two Golden Globes, but no kids. Hayley Atwell, who plays Peggy Carter in Marvel’s cinematic/television universe, hasn’t dispensed her DNA. Neither has comedienne Whitney Cummings. Neither has former racing pro Danica Patrick. Lauren Cohan, Abbie Cornish, Sophia Bush, Alice Eve — not mothers. (Tomorrow, Kristin Kreuk turns 40 as a non-mom.)
In 2011, Brie and Jacobs did a sexy photoshoot for GQ to promote the ratings-challenged Community. Several years later, the former said it was a “wonderful thing that women are empowering other women.”
But balking at bambinos isn’t limited to the rich and famous. Americans of all socioeconomic status are eschewing reproduction.
Economist Michael R. Haines estimates that in 1800, white women, who comprised four out of every five adult females in the country, averaged 7.04 births apiece. As recently as 1970, several years after the Baby Boom ended, America’s total fertility rate (TFR) was 2.48. By 2000, it had dipped to 2.06 — barely replacement level. Then the Great Recession struck, kicking off a “dramatic decline in birth rates … between 2007 and 2020.” (A slight reversal has occurred, as a result of lockdowns, but no one expects it to last.)
Breeders choosing to have fewer kids is one reason for the TFR’s swoon, but as our celebrity anecdotes illustrate, another cause is the substantial hike in non-breeders. Analyzing 2020 Census Bureau data, the Institute for Family Studies calculated that one out of every six “women reaching the end of their childbearing years had never given birth.” (Thanks to immigrant mothers, babies continue to outnumber coffin sales in the United States. For now.)
Many women should come nowhere near motherhood, and a whole lot of men have paltry potential to be dependable fathers. It’s good that the stigma against those of us hard-passing on procreation has faded almost entirely away. But it’s difficult to refute the claim that a nation with a dismally low fertility rate is in for big trouble. (Who’s going to cover your Social Security checks, greedy geezers?) More disturbing, when combined with other demographic developments, the crash in baby-making reveals a culture that is undeniably anti-life.
A week ago, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention announced that U.S. life expectancy “decreased in 2021 for the second consecutive year.” (In 2015, a dip of three consecutive years began.) Overdose deaths made a sizable contribution to the sorry news — they’ve “risen fivefold over the past 2 decades.” Alcohol-related deaths are up, too.
Perhaps all that druggin’ and drinkin’ is due to the loneliness epidemic. Last year, a Harvard poll found that 36 percent of Americans reported “feeling lonely ‘frequently’ or ‘almost all the time or all the time.’” And going online doesn’t appear to help. The “typical American now spends 2-3 months per year on their phone,” but research consistently shows that living much of your existence digitally is inadvisable. (It doesn’t seem to boost matrimony, either, since “the marriage rate hit a 50-year low in 2020 ... and dropped slightly lower in 2021.”)
What’s to blame for all the misery? There’s no question that feminism is a disaster for women, men, and children, but Betty Friedan’s nonsense can’t solely explain a crisis this massive. Here’s a theory: Homo sapiens evolved in an environment bereft of food abundance, instant communication, mandated gender equality, and “public investments.” Take Earth’s apex primate, thrust 21st century technology, beliefs, habits, and laws upon it, and watch deep despair ensue.
No one in a position of power is willing to publicly explore such an explanation, of course, much less offer alternative assumptions, arrangements, and policies. Suggest a return to traditional gender roles? Demand that welfare cases stop living off the work of others? Stress purpose and meaning over easy pleasures? That kind of talk is an express ticket to cancelation. Leave it alone. Future generations will figure it out. Won’t they?
There is no simple answer to this dilemma. Of course, women going into the workforce to find some magic answer to self-esteem seems like a good idea, and how many women crow about women needing to make the same money as men, or more! Well now, they can make more! They can be CEOs, they can be Senators, Talk Show monsters of manipulation and they can even be Vice President with little or no criteria other than their color!! This is the best time in History to be a woman and yet if you say that to a Liberal Female Extremist they will immediately attack and assume you are a Trump supporter, like that's a bad thing. Many women represent that phenomena that is, "Everything you think you know is simply Wrong!!" Women are wrong in their whole approach to life and purpose, but you cant even tell them that, because they are Drunk with useless POWER! Power they don't know how to implement or or properly exploit. We've dumb-down the FREE World in order to make women feel more important, when they were always important and they just didn't realize it. Love and Marriage and a Baby Carriage is the key to a successful life and our society has to respect it, honor it and support it. That said, Men have to step up and be the man of the home and become a decent bread winner. Together they can succeed and maybe we also have to redefine success, because it certainly is not Wealth!
Women are so hung up on becoming more that they can be, that they have become LESS than what their Grandmothers were. So, we have a mental block for Women, because they won't admit that what they really want is a sexy good looking cowboy man to take them and make wild love to them. Then, take them to his ranch and take care of his woman, while they work and struggle together to raise cattle and raise their family!! Women have been indoctrinated into a situation where THEY have to have the control, when what they really need is a Man in Control that they can admire, depend on and help guide to be their loving husband.
While it is true that our Society has done absolutely nothing to support marriage, it is this indoctrination of woman's intellect and misguided journey into feminism that is all but destroying the very "woman run society" that they claim to need so badly. A society where women are in control, powerful and obnoxiously self righteous!! Women are so much better at nurturing than they are at bullying, and yet, if you look at the female role-models like Madonna, Nancy Pelosi, Oprah, AOC or even Cameltoe Harris, they are all self-righteous morons that have bullied their way to the top with lying and manipulation!!
So now, what does a man do when he's primarily been emasculated by women and knows he is not providing what they need to support their womanhood? They become little obedient lap dog stay-at-home boyfriends or they simply go on their own hoping to find a REAL woman. The role of MEN in society is being taken away at an alarming rate. Maybe we need another World War for men to go away to and learn how to be a soldier. Then, maybe the women they come back to after the War is over will suddenly want to procreate, since they now are lonely for a REAL brave man and have realized what a drag it is to be with the terrible women that were left behind.
The overwhelming talk you hear from women today is, "Why would I want to have a child and bring up that child in a World that is the way it is today?" Well, guess what EVE? You ate the Apple and made the World what it is today and to Men's discredit they helped you do it!!
Perhaps The Anti-Family Way is a factor in the work crisis that Nicholas Eberstadt writes about in Men Without Work. https://audioboom.com/posts/8221771-1-4-men-without-work-post-pandemic-edition-2022-new-threats-to-freedom-series-by-nicholas
He explains how government response to COVID-19 exacerbates a flight from work. Pandemic shutdowns and unconditional “unemployment” benefits paid Americans not to work.. With less work, fewer families will be formed. And with fewer children, & families to support, men are not as motivated to find a job. A viscous cycle perhaps? See this graph of labor force participation trending lower during the last generation at https://www.advisorperspectives.com/images/content_image/data/45/45cbceefc68afb37a4537fa1ac8978be.png