{"id":131239,"date":"2015-10-17T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/ivorytowerblr-sunshineinmyveins\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T02:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T02:12:26","slug":"ivorytowerblr-sunshineinmyveins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/ivorytowerblr-sunshineinmyveins\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-131239 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/ivorytowerblr-sunshineinmyveins\/attachment\/131240\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmjtgsrLYm1qgsazuo1_1280-150x136.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/ivorytowerblr-sunshineinmyveins\/attachment\/131241\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmjtgsrLYm1qgsazuo2_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmjtgsrLYm1qgsazuo2_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmjtgsrLYm1qgsazuo2_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ivorytowerblr.tumblr.com\/post\/116437443876\" target=\"_blank\">ivorytowerblr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sunshineinmyveins.tumblr.com\/post\/116322390905\" target=\"_blank\">sunshineinmyveins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dynastylnoire.tumblr.com\/post\/116319628235\" target=\"_blank\">dynastylnoire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jungleminx.tumblr.com\/post\/116318880446\" target=\"_blank\">jungleminx<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/salon.tumblr.com\/post\/115954852942\" target=\"_blank\">salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Just as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/09\/business\/international\/sex-education-in-europe-turns-to-urging-more-births.html\" target=\"_blank\">European sex ed programs are looking to urge more births<\/a> to combat falling fertility rates, the U.S. might be seeing similar trends in its own birth rate. Not just yet, though. But, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/hhes\/fertility\/data\/cps\/historical.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to new numbers from the Census Bureau<\/a>, more American women of childbearing age are actually childless. Almost half of women between the ages of 15 and 44 didn\u2019t have kids in 2014, with an increase from 46.5 percent in 2012 to 47.6 percent last year.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/04\/09\/more_american_women_are_not_having_kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Census Bureau finds the highest percentage of childless women of reproductive age since the 1970s<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well that\u2019s what you fucking GET<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You killed the economy<br \/>Your police keep killing black people<br \/>Your colleges over charge per credit hour<br \/>Your students have crippling debt<br \/>The minimum wage is not a liveable wage<br \/>Gentrification has destroyed black neighborhoods and small businesses<br \/>Rent is too high<br \/>Day care costs more than rent<br \/>Food stamps get cut year after year<br \/>Health insurance is expensive<br \/>Doctor bills are expensive<br \/>You had turned men into celebrated misogynists that don\u2019t want to wear condoms or pay for child support or fund abortions<\/p>\n<p>No we don\u2019t want to children in a world that has no problem watching us die and blaming us for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FUCKING THIS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Birthrates tend to fall in countries that have achieved emancipation for women but do not continue to support women afterwards. Basically, you\u2019re told\u00a0\u201cyou can have a career or you can have kids, not both\u201d and so a lot of women go\u00a0\u201cfuck it\u201d. Also, consider that if women are *choosing* not to have kids, it\u2019s for a reason. All of the reasons stated above are absolutely correct.<\/p>\n<p>If you want people to have kids, make it seem like a joy and not a burden. Make the world the kind of place you want to bring children into instead of protecting them from it by not even having them. Make sure every child that is born is supported. When parents can live without fearing for their children, there will be more of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ivorytowerblr: sunshineinmyveins: dynastylnoire: jungleminx: salon: Just as European sex ed programs are looking to urge more births to combat falling fertility rates, the U.S. might be seeing similar trends in its own birth rate. Not just yet, though. But, according to new numbers from the Census Bureau, more American women of childbearing age are actually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/ivorytowerblr-sunshineinmyveins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[120,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131242,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131239\/revisions\/131242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}