Notice a bunch of your friends seemed to have gotten pregnant since the start of the pandemic? You might be tempted to call it a trend, but several states that keep track of births in near-real-time recorded significant drops in Dec. 2020 birthrates.https://trib.al/cJx8zCx
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“This is a bad situation,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Maryland. “The declines we're seeing now are… pretty substantial.”https://trib.al/cJx8zCx
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Not only have birth rates dropped, but Cohen's research also shows there have been noticeable drops in Google searches for pregnancy- and sex-related topicshttps://trib.al/cJx8zCx
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“People make long-term decisions when they have confidence about the future, and if there's anything that undermines confidence about the future, it's this massive pandemic,” he saidhttps://trib.al/cJx8zCx
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The pandemic is compounding an existing problem in America, as birth rates were sinking to an all-time low, even before COVID-19 arrived. Read more from NBCLX's
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I didnt want to have kids BEFORE the pandemic, and every Zoom meeting I’ve been on since has only strengthened & solidified that position.
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Ha! I'm on the other end of your zoom calls rethinking my life choices ;) while trying to work from home with 4 kids and virtual school
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Gee, I can’t imagine why people don’t want to have a baby during a world wide pandemic with no end in sight, while the economy and our country collapses...
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And while going to a hospital is about the most dangerous thing you could do...
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