Millennials: It’s OK, Baby Boomers
We got this.
We have been hearing it for the better part of a decade now: The national birth rate is falling and it’s a total doomsday scenario.
The Centers for Disease Control released its National Vital Statistics report in early January and, for the third year in a row, the general fertility rate (GFR) has dropped again. According to the report, the GFR has decreased 3 percent since 2016, hitting a 30-year record low.
It’s the millennials. [Insert blame here].
We are nothing like our parents. We change jobs more frequently — often several times during our most productive working lives —marry later, and don’t save for retirement like we should.
Our culture and our environment are nothing like our baby boomer parents’ either. We came of age in an often unstable gig economy (I graduated from college in 2008, at the height of the economic crisis), much of our mate finding is now the product of online matchmaking; and millennials have some of the most staggering levels of student loan debt. And, to make matters even more concerning, infant and mother mortality rates have been consistently on the rise, making…
