Cell Phones Blamed for Demographic Decline

June 3, 2025 Issue #30

If we don’t get this right, nothing else matters.

Expert blames phones as a driving factor for declining birth rate – Fortune, March 28

https://fortune.com/well/2025/03/28/phones-declining-birth-rate-elon-musk/

“Over half of 18 to 34-year-olds are not in committed relationships, she points out. While Evans doesn’t decry singledom becoming more culturally ‘permissible,’ she places the onus on the phone.

‘Why venture out when everything is at your fingertips, from Netflix to Zoom meetings?’ she says. Evans sees the influence the digital landscape has on socialization across the countries where she has conducted research. ‘And so we see tracing the data over time that there is growing isolation. Young people are spending much more time alone.’” Quoting British social scientist Alice Evans.

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Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War – a book by Peachy Keenan

“How should we win back the culture? A freelance writer who goes by the pseudonym “Peachy Keenan” answers: we can reclaim civilization only if more women become just a little more ‘domestic.’ For Keenan, that means getting married and having kids—perhaps earlier than is expected. This, in turn, would mean that more women should stay home to raise their children if they can. As Keenan sees it, that once-normal pattern of life is now considered extreme.” From a review in Law and Liberty.

A Domestic Activist Makes Her Case

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Subsidies Can’t Overcome Anti-Procreation Culture – Don Feder in The Washington Times, May 11, 2025

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/subsidies-cant-overcome-anti-procreation-culture/

“More people are remaining single, choosing the dreamland of cyberspace over real relationships. Increasingly, those who do marry don’t want children. The percentage of adults without children who say they will never have them increased from 14% in 2002 to 29% in 2023.”

On June 3, we launched a website – Stop Demographic Winter https://stopdemographicwinter.com/ Check it out.

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