Forget About MAGA’s Toxic Masculinity, Women Are Giving Up on Marriage to Those Guys

 

Forget About MAGA’s Toxic Masculinity, Women Are Giving Up on Marriage to Those Guys

But Donald Trump Wants More Babies (White Bias, of Course)

‘If I need companionship, I volunteer at the dog shelter.’ 

a happy, single, Christina Ralstin.

[Trump is "proudly implementing policies to uplift American families… The president wants America to be a country where all children can safely grow up and achieve the American dream. As a mother myself, I am proud to work for a president who is taking significant action to leave a better country for the next generation." 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

"I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are….

"We need a culture that celebrates life at all stages, one that recognizes and truly believes that the benchmark of national success is not our GDP number or our stock market but whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in our country," 

JD Vance at the January March for Life Rally

[Pursuing dating apps is] “the only thing you can put 10,000 hours into and end up right where you started.” 

 Katie Kirsch

The United States is a mixed bag for women. Still, there are more women university graduates and professional/graduate school enrollees than men. But the cost and inconvenience of having and raising children has produced the lowest birthrate in American history (about 1.6 live births per couple, where 2.1 is the replacement rate). “ The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a historic low in 2023, with 3,591,328 births recorded that year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birth rates specifically declined for women ages 20 to 39 as rising health costs, economic concerns and child-bearing postponements have impacted the fertility rate, according to Time, which cited research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.” Forbes, April 23rd. What a perfect time to eject immigrants who are necessary for our economy (but they’re not white!!!), cut medical programs, cut federal support for education as all levels, and make childcare even more prohibitively expensive. Good thimkin’, Mr Trump!

Having a child interferes with corporate promotion, the cost of childcare consumes most of lower-income wages, and the United States represents a toxic environment in which to raise children. The Trump/Musk model pushes “woke rejection,” but while may incent Trump voters, it actually creates a loser self-aggrandizement in the form of misogynist “toxic masculinity,” not particularly attractive to growing number of women. Is this Musk the model? “Musk, one of the president’s most senior advisers, has also encouraged Americans to have more children. Musk, a father of at least 14 children, has claimed civilization at large will collapse without an increase in children.” Forbes. Musk is actually doing more to collapse civilization with his cuts to medical and scientific research, social programs that actually support families and his generally anti-anyone who’s not rich attitude. Not to mention the possible impact of his Aspergers syndrome.

After clearly surveying the environment, an increasing number of women want nothing to do with marriage. Writing for the March 22nd Wall Street Journal, Rachel Wolfe tell it like it is: “American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.

“‘The numbers aren’t netting out,’ said Daniel Cox, director of the survey center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. He ticked off the data points: More women than men are attending college, buying houses and focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage… Stories of women complaining about the lack of quality men have long infused pop culture—from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to Taylor Swift’s oeuvre. Yet women throughout history rarely questioned whether finding and securing a romantic partner should be a primary goal of adulthood.

“This seems to be changing. Over half of single women said they believed they were happier than their married counterparts in a 2024 AEI survey of 5,837 adults. Just over a third of surveyed single men said the same… A 2022 Pew survey of single adults showed only 34% of single women were looking for romance, compared with 54% of single men, down from 38% and 61% in 2019. Men were also more likely than women to say they were worried that nobody would want to date them… A rise in earning power and a decline in the social stigma for being single has allowed more women to be choosy. ‘They would rather be alone than with a man who holds them back,’ Cox said…

“The share of women ages 18 to 40 who are single—that is, neither married nor cohabitating with a partner—was 51.4% in 2023, according to an analysis of census data by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, up from 41.8% in 2000… These numbers don’t specify whether women are looking for love or swearing it off, but more-nuanced surveys show that single women appear less interested in getting married now than they used to be. They also seem less keen on getting hitched than their male peers.” In short, the US population will continue to decline, there will be a severe shortage for jobs at the bottom of the workforce, the cost of living will continue to soar, the number of workers needed to support increasing number of retirees will fall, and the number of local American consumers will drop. Trump has a plan… a bad one… but a plan.

What’s the Trump administration solution? Maybe $5,000 baby bonuses, easier admission to colleges, perhaps even high-level honors programs, and perhaps a cash bonus for mothers who have six or more children. That college thang is clearly tilted toward white mothers. Well, you tell me how exciting and attractive any of these incentives appear to you.

I’m Peter Dekom, and American values are changing big time, even the notion of marrying well or at least for love, and there is an increasing cost to pushing national policies that really scare too many younger Americans from even thinking about marrying and having children.