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South Korea’s Fertility Crisis since 2016
South Korea has gotten into the news recently because of its shockingly low Total Fertility Rate of 0.72 births per woman in 2023. Yes, that is slightly more than one-third of the population maintenance Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1 … Continue reading
The Newly Emerging United States Fertility Crisis
The 2020 Final Birth Data report for the United States has been released. What I was hoping for was to be able to confirm that the proportion of women of reproductive age (15 to 44 years old) who were married … Continue reading
The Traditionalist Challenge to Modernity in the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, or at least Catholics, have a reputation for being liberals; it is Evangelical Christians who are known as being conservatives or at least tied to the Republican Party and more recently specifically being supporters of Donald Trump. … Continue reading
The Disappearing Deaths from Coronavirus
Coronavirus isn’t a new epidemic anymore, it has been around for 6 plus months in the United States, I would say March 1, 2020 is when the epidemic “got started” in terms of the public reaction to it. So where … Continue reading
The 100 Year Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote
In traditional societies men are the guardians of women; men being the guardians of women being pretty much universal say 200 years ago and prior. Men being the “guardian” of women means men take care of women, men protect women, … Continue reading
Roosh V and the Failure of Neomasculinity
Roosh V started blogging at DC Bachelor on March 3, 2005; moving to his current blogging domain Roosh V on November 6, 2006. Apparently on July 10, 2007 Roosh self-published his book “Bang” selling 66 copies in the first 5 … Continue reading
Rollo Tomassi versus Anthony Dream Johnson
Some interesting news hit the manosphere when Rollo Tomassi put up his post “21 Convention Dates Cancellation” on June 2, 2019. Rollo starts out the post saying: “I’ve got some bad news. Due to some unfortunate misunderstandings and internal conflict … Continue reading
History of Family Breakdown in the United States
Family breakdown started around 1850 in the United States I would guess, certainly no later than 1870, family breakdown being visible in social statistics as soon as comprehensive social statistics started to be tabulated. From the source “100 Years of … Continue reading
The Life of Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly died on September 5, 2016 at the age of 92. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1924. From a New York Times book review written in 2006 Judith Warner commented: “In many ways, Phyllis Schlalfy, née … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Politics Analysis, Research
Tagged conservative women defeat the ERA, female supremacist bias in the Equal Rights Amendment debate, importance of religion in defeating the ERA, Phyllis Schlafly’s fight against feminism, the contradiction of the ambitious anti-feminist woman
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Out-of-Wedlock Births Plateau and maybe begin Decline
The out-of-wedlock birth ratio or illegitimacy ratio was 40.2% in 2014; that is down, yes DOWN, from 41.0% in 2009. This is the first time since 1950 that the illegitimacy ratio has declined over a 5 year period.
Posted in Social Statistics
Tagged 1994 as first social conservative backlash, 2009 as second social conservative backlash, decrease in married women working and reduced illegitimacy ratio, increased value of marriage since 2009, stabilization of out-of-wedlock birth ratio since 2009, tables and graphs for out-of-wedlock births
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Secular Patriarchy 