Washington (AP) –
While the Trump government is investigating paths to encourage the Americans to have more babies and reverse the falling birth rate of the United States, a fresh survey notes that relatively few US -grown -growing people see this as a priority or share the concerns of the White House.
Instead, the Americans want the government to focus on the high costs of childcare and the improvement of health results for pregnant women.
Pronatalism or the promotion of birth has gained traction as a movement within the technology world and among some religious conservatives. Prominent personalities on the right such as Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance have set themselves up for prescription beliefs and argue that more children are good for society.
The survey shows that only about 3 out of 10 Americans say that falling birth rates in the United States are a “big problem”, and only 12% say that the encouragement of families to have more children should have a “high priority” for the federal government.
The Republicans also see affordable childcare and health results for pregnant women as higher priorities from the government than promoting more births, which indicates that even as conservatives, pronatalist politics are not driving them much of the GOP basis.
“It is not bad today,” said Misty Conklin, a supporter of President Donald Trump, the falling birth rate.
The 50 -year -old Conclin lives in Indiana and believes that the government makes it more affordable to educate children, including the support of the social services that her disabled granddaughter needs.
“It is difficult to live as a couple, let alone with children,” said Conclin. “It is getting worse.”
Childcare costs are a much bigger problem
The Americans are more concerned about the costs of collecting and maintaining a child than the number of babies born, according to the survey.
About three quarters of the US-growing people say that childcare costs are a “big problem”. This includes approximately 8 out of 10 democrats and women as well as about 7 out of 10 Republicans and men.
Guidelines such as free or inexpensive daycare for children who are too adolescent to attend public school and paid family vacation are also popular with around two thirds of the Americans.
For Maria Appelbe, a Trump voter in Arizona, childcare costs taken into account her decision to terminate her job to take care of her daughter when she was younger. The 49-year-old said: “I was lucky that we were able to get it running without inflation.”
Not a lot of US -grown -ups are worried too few children who are born
The Americans only seem to have a few opinions about the number of children’s families. Demographic forecasts have shown that the country’s replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman, which would not shrink the population in the long term. In the survey, however, there are no powerful opinions on whether it is “mostly a good thing” or “mostly a bad thing” for families to have fewer than two children or more than two children.
APOOLE, who has a teenager, believes that it makes sense to have petite families. “I am so glad that I could give her everything I could, but I definitely think if I had more children, I wouldn’t have made it,” she said.
While only a few Americans say that the federal government should make it a “high priority” to encourage families to have more children, the majority want the government to focus on improving health results for women. Black adults say this particularly likely, as well as women. Black women have the highest mothers’ mortality rate in the United States, which lags behind other wealthy nations in the health of mothers.
Pronatalism ideas register more with conservatives, but most do not think about it
There are petite signs that some pronatalist policies register more with conservative republicans than liberal democrats, although the survey indicates that most do not think about this problem.
The Republicans say more often than Democrats that it is “largely bad” for the future of the United States when families have two or fewer children, although relatively few Republicans – about 2 out of 10 – take this view.
A socially conservative and fiscal liberal Dmitriy Samussenko, 28, do not identify with one of the two US political parties. The residents based in California is of the opinion that the degenerating US birth rate is a major problem that determines whether the nation will continue to exist in the long term.
Samusenko said he supported “the government as a resource to grow and develop families”.
Pronatalist supporters have included the White House on the idea of ​​a “baby bonus” of 5,000 US dollars for mothers after a fresh baby was born. Trump said it sounds “a good idea”, but about half of the conservative Republicans refuse the $ 5,000 baby bonus, and about a quarter support it. Overall, the Americans are more shared: about a third are for it, about 4 out of 10 and about 3 out of 10 are neutral.
Many see the costs of fertility treatments as a substantial problem
On the campaign path, Trump promised to be the “president of the fertilization president”. In February he signed an executive order that supported the extended access to the in -vitro fertilization.
IVF is popular with Americans, but is controversial in parts of Trump’s religious basis, especially in the Catholics and some Evangelicals.
About 4 out of 10 US -growing people consider the “costs for fertility treatments” in the United States to be a major problem. Almost half of US -growing “strong” or “something” prefers that insurance companies have to cover the fertility treatments.
Bill Taylor, 72, from Washington State, observed how his adult daughter had health challenges and high-priced fertility treatments to get a child. He emphatically prefers the government to meet insurance companies to cover fertility treatments.
Taylor, a democrat, also said that the falling birth rate was a problem, albeit a petite one.
“Larger families mean a greater need for state health care and state social programs,” said Taylor. “Conservatives don’t want that. They just want to let the family grow.”
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The AP-NORC survey of 1,158 adults was carried out from June 5th to 9th using a sample from the probability base of NORC, which is designed as representative of the US population. The sales edge for adults in total is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
