problem with that is, for many decades, the government has contributed to the problem. Moreover, there are other, more trustworthy, institutions that can handle this sort of problem.
The birthrate in the U.S. is 1.6 children per woman, below the 2.1 replacement rate needed for the population to sustain itself without immigration. Up until recently, our leaders used this fact to justify the unceasing deluge of third-world migrants. Rather than address why the people who already live here aren’t having children, America’s leaders have been replacing the native population with foreigners.
The Trump administration wants to change this. They’ve been meeting with pronatalism groups and kicking around ideas on how to incentivize more Americans to get married and have many children. The New York Times published a report on this. White House officials are looking at giving a $5,000 baby bonus to every American mom after delivery, reserving 30 percent of Fulbright scholarships for applicants who are married or have children, and funding a program that teaches women about their menstrual cycles. The Times made sure to point out that the White House sees only traditional-style families as legitimate. Boo-hoo.
The New York Times published on April 21, 2025, an article about the White House’s agenda to boost marriage and childbearing among Americans.
It’s refreshing to have leaders who have respect for thousands of years of proven social science, or, as I see it, respect for God’s design for the most essential building block of society. It’s also nice to have leaders who want this country’s future to be perpetuated by the people who already live here, people whose ancestors built this country. Coming from an immigrant, this may seem like an odd and hypocritical position. But I have my reasons. First off, my family came here legally. That’s an important distinction. Also, we came to the U.S. fully intending to become Americans, while many of today’s immigrants don’t. And thanks to the rot from within, American pride is at an all-time low, even among the native born population, making it more difficult to sell immigrants on the greatness of America, capitalism, and limited government. The Biden administration, run by anti-American Marxists seeking to destroy the country, knew this, which is why they brought in 10 million unvetted, unskilled foreigners.
But as much as I agree with the Trump administration’s pronatalism efforts, I think they’re missing key pieces of the puzzle. Baby bonuses are great, but the reasons Americans aren’t getting married and having children are primarily cultural and out of its purview. The media like to say Americans aren’t having children because they can’t afford them anymore. But that’s not entirely, or even mostly, accurate. The groups having the most kids are lower income and wealthy Americans. It’s the middle class who are dialing it back. And while there is truth to the criticism that the middle class is subsiding the indigent, they’ve still got more resources.
The problem is Americans have become secularized, selfish, and infected with feminist ideology. It’s not that kids are unaffordable, it’s that having them will leave less money for vacations, regular shopping sprees, and $8 lattes.
Children also get in the way of the career-driven woman, which is what women have been told to be since the 1960s. This is one of the most impressively successful propaganda campaigns, given that careers are stressful and, more times than not, unrewarding. Women have been told it’s better to be cooped up in a cubicle or to get puked on my strangers while working at medical facilities rather than cultivate life and build a sanctuary for your family. Women have been told its’s oppressive and patriarchal to let the man bear the brunt of the cruel world at the price of a homecooked meal. Women have been told that every society since the beginning of time had it wrong until the feminists came along and enlightened us two hours ago.
So—where has all this progress gotten us?
For starters, more than half of liberal women battle mental disorders. Liberal women are the ones who take feminist ideas most seriously. While some are certainly made for the workplace, many more than currently occupy it are not. Women are maternal, nurturing, and creative beings who don’t compartmentalize well. When you drop them in a purely transactional setting, things can go haywire. But thanks to decades of brainwashing, many don’t even know they’d be better off in a traditional home setting. They blame Trump for their anger, anxiety, and misery.
Also, feminist lies have ruptured relations between the two sexes.
Half of married couples get divorced. But this only became normal during the end of the last century. Men are innately built to protect, provide, and lead. But the feminists tell women that following a man’s lead is oppressive and that they should be the ones in charge. So relationships are fraught with power struggles, causing acrimony that eventually results in divorce. The irony is that women in general, even liberal ones, still want masculine men. But they don’t realize you can’t separate the flour from the cake.
All this has culminated into a crisis. Americans are getting married later, if at all, and they’re having less babies, if any. And the Trump administration, led by a man who thinks it’s his duty to solve all the country’s problems, wants to implement policies that will reverse this trend.
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