#teenmothers — Public Fediverse posts

"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …

The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).

The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).

It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes,

"Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/greedy-work-and-the-churchs-stand-on-parenthood/112819

As Jill Filipovic notes, Republicans are concerned about "middle-aged highly-educated liberal women, who over the past decade have turned out in enormous numbers for the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter rallies, anti-ICE demonstrations, and most recently national No Kings protests."

Pushing girls into early childbearing heads that "problem" of uppity women off early on.

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.throughline.news/p/the-purpose-problem

"We now must contend with a bunch of absolute freaks who are somehow upset about the teen birth rate going down."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/republicansabsolute-freaks-want-to

"Many on the right — the same crowd that has long extolled the virtues of abstinence-only sex education (the Alabama house just last week joined the state senate to pass a bill requiring it in lieu of comprehensive information) — jumped directly into the fray to publicly lament that teens are having fewer babies."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"How on-brand for the federal government to announce that U.S. birth rates are falling — just as The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaids Tale, dropped on Hulu last week."

~ Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/fewer-teen-births-is-good-unless

"Now, though, the conservative line is that if girls don’t have babies as teenagers, and women don’t have babies in their early 20s, society will collapse."

WHITE babies: it's the decline in births to WHITE teen mothers that they're alarmed about.

Not just any baby will do: it's white ones they desperately want to see born.

#Republicans #MAGA #GreatReplacement #ReproductiveRates #BirthRates #babies #WhiteSupremacy #TeenMothers
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"All over Fox News and social media, conservatives are absolutely losing their minds over birth rate dips, and are upset that teenage girls aren’t having babies like they used to. ...

When I was a kid in the 1990s, it was conservatives even more so than liberals who wrung their hands about 'babies having babies.'”

~ Jill Filipovic

#Republicans #MAGA #GreatReplacement #ReproductiveRates #BirthRates #babies #WhiteSupremacy #TeenMothers
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https://www.throughline.news/p/want-more-babies-make-more-girlbosses

"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …

The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …

The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/9

"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …

The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/9

"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …

The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).

The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).

The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/8

"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).

The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/8

"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).

The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).

It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).

It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).

It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/7

"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).

It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/6

"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/6

"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes,

"Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/greedy-work-and-the-churchs-stand-on-parenthood/112819

Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes,

"Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
/5

https://www.ucanews.com/news/greedy-work-and-the-churchs-stand-on-parenthood/112819

Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes,

"Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/greedy-work-and-the-churchs-stand-on-parenthood/112819

@ThomHartmann

#GOPHandmaidsTale

Men are No Longer Burning Women at the Stake - They're Now Killing Them By "Big Government"

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“#Abortion legalization reduced the number of women who became #TeenMothers by 34% and the number who became #TeenBrides by 20%... [L]egalization reduced #MaternalMortality among #Black women by 30-40%..”

I have not checked on the correlation of economic growth and the number of witch hunts referenced in the #HartmanReport...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/men-are-no-longer-burning-women-at