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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s


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For reasons unrelated to anything, I was in a discussion today and learned that locally, preschools are struggling to get full enrollment. Which reminded me that I'm Gen X and that this can be a problem if kids aren't born. So I looked it up.

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Kids aren't being born.

It's not as bad as that extreme low point, the nadir of Gen X when Nicole and I managed to scream our way out of our mothers' guts, but it's low.Note that this is the absolute number of births, not even the birth rate. Which is as you'd expect.

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The rate is abysmal, as you'd expect.

Anyway. Pretty dang interesting to me that the actual number of births is so low. This will have some pretty severe economic implications a quarter of a century from now.

But we're already seeing it affect preschools.

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That's wild.   We had waiting lists to get in with the first, and just brought in a nanny with the others because they were still packed.  Local anecdote I know, but I would have never guessed. 

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Our grandkids are 3 and 1.  There's absolutely still waiting lists for quality daycare and preschools.  It's expensive AF and the 2nd kid makes the equation increasingly difficult to justify both parents working full time when it comes to the intersection of diminishing returns financially and investing that extra time directly into the kids..

Both of their parents are post grad educated, gainfully employed, pay their taxes, never been arrested etc.  I'm sure that's somehow undesirable for some of your assessments on here.  All is not lost, our other son and DIL are equally educated but 5 years younger and insist they are not having chil'ren...yet.

 

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1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:

Plenty of people out there have no business with kids. Hopefully, they are at least some of the ones not having them.

Maybe you're right...

How has the distribution of ages in Oklahoma changed?

The share of the population that is 0 to 4 years old decreased from 7% in 2010 to 6.1% in 2022.

The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 13.5% in 2010 to 16.4% in 2022.

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