Fertility Rates Collapsing - New Study

The declining fertility rate in the West is a clear indicator of the last two paragraphs of the Family Proclamation.

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Today is December 12th, 2025. This is
Quick Show today and in this episode we
are going to cover the fertility rates
in women. A new study comes out showing
that the actual biological function of a
woman actually lowers its fertility
sooner than they thought. Now, if you
followed the show, you know that I think
the fertility rate, the birth rate, is
one of the most important things, if not
the most important thing temporally in
the world today. I'm going to cover the
study. I'm going to cover some stats.
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All right. So, I had mentioned that
there was a new study that came out. The
New York Post reported on this. I've got
their page right here. I just want to
cover a couple of things and then go
into some other stats that I think are
very important to understand what's
going on. Hey, look at that. We got an
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Damage Temp. Okay. All right. So, as
they say, a new study has pinpointed the
age when female fertility starts to
plummet. And it happens earlier than you
might think. Now, I want to keep
something clear here. This doesn't mean
that all of a sudden women's fertility
is dropping right now. That that would
be a different study if that is the
case. What it means is that biologically
they are seeing why this is happening.
It's earlier than what they thought
happens to women's eggs, right? Because
of a protein that is reduced sooner than
they thought. A protein that holds
chromosomes together, binds them
together. Rearch research
researchers say the findings could pave
the way for future treatments, which is
the good news that help keep women's
biological clocks ticking longer. Now,
here's something again that's so
important to understand with where we're
at right now. Back in 1970,
the average age of the firsttime mothers
in the US was 21.4,
but by 2023, it had jumped to 27.5.
Right? So, we've got a sixyear
change in the average age of a firsttime
mother. Now, part of that is we could
say, well, teenage pregnancy has dropped
and that definitely affects this. So,
that's a good thing, right? That's a
positive. But overall, we know that men
and women are waiting to get married
longer. They're waiting to get families
to start families longer. And the
overall fertility rate in the West is
plummeting.
And what they found in the study is that
women ages 20 to 32,
about one in five of those eggs carried
a chromosome error, right? Which is
going to create a problem for fertility.
But after 32, that number starts to
climb faster or just starts to climb.
What causes this? It's the decline of
cohesin proteins in eggs that that fuel
the age related chromosomeal errors. So
they've pinpointed what the problem is.
But this doesn't change anything in
terms of, you know, women having a
tougher time with fertility. We already
know how that works. Most women have uh
babies in their 20s and their 30s and
now even into their 40s. There's less of
a chance for fertility going beyond that
age of 35 especially and then a little
bit less as you go on and into your 40s
etc. Right? We already know all of this
but biologically they have pinpointed
what is happening and that could be very
good news. Now overall the fertility
rate and I've
beating a dead horse here again on this
topic. It is so important for us to
understand and to try and reverse this
and maybe there's no way to do it. Maybe
we are beyond the point of no return in
the west. I I I don't know. But the
problem is is that we've been told for
so long through that that that we have
way too many people on the earth and
that's a problem and we're going to
limit our resources and we're going to
have starvation and the exact opposite
has happened. We've had a lot of people
uh what are we now 8 billionish on the
earth right now. Um starvation is
basically gone in the world. Yes, it is
gone in the world except for war torn
countries where
tyrants dictators have have stopped food
supplies to certain places especially in
Africa. But they were wrong that we had
did we had too many people. All of the
garbage now in climate change, which
we're going to cover in an episode here
soon, um h has also helped limit people
from having kids, thinking they were
overpopulating the world and causing
climate change. Turns out more and more
the consensus even within the scientific
community is changing rather quickly
with that. It's been a lie.
And so the crisis is not that we have
too many people in the earth. crisis is
that we have too few. We are currently
living through a global collapse in
fertility
and no one really wants to talk enough
about this. You get a few voices out
there that are important but but we're
not doing enough. We this is a real real
problem and we're kicking the can down
the road, right? The the the numbers are
staggering. It it's going to turn
deadly. This could be the cause for
starvation. This could be a cause for
wars, not from too many people, from not
enough. So
nation by nation, right, we're seeing
that over a third over a few
generations, we are going to lose a
third of the population in the west,
right? At a current rate, every for
every hundred babies that are born right
now,
that's going to become 33 in the next
generation. Then it drops by another
third to 11 and then four. So 11 drops
to four in three generations. That's the
rate that we're going at right now.
Right? That that is not again a decline.
That is a absolute collapse.
Norway, South Korea, Japan, these
advanced nations are already leading the
way in this area. Korea is has the
lowest fertility rate in the world. And
America is not that far behind them.
Utah even just recently dropped from the
number four highest fertility rate in
the states in the 50 states down to
number 10 nationally, right? In just a
few years. And what's causing this? We
can look at housing costs. We can look
at education, right? But the the issue
is the core issue is is is that we're
not forming families and we're forming
them much later.
And so the economic pressures and you
know people that are worried about the
climate change and these things all
exist but the bottom line is the core
problem that we have to focus on
and is is forming families sooner and
larger families and whatever whether
it's economic policies any other
policies uh cultural change we need to
have kids in their 20s marrying sooner
and having children sooner and having
this ideal of creating a family and not
just, hey, it's it's all about me and
where do I want to be when I'm 30 and
35.
What's really interesting is is women
for the first time ever, I mean really
to this extent have all of the choice in
the world to choose their mates, right?
And so what has happened with that
choice? Fewer children.
there are fewer children because most
men honestly are not measuring up
and with the concept of hypergamy where
many women want very few of the men out
there and with men that are not re
rising up to where they need to be.
They're not becoming who they need to
become and they're focusing on
pornography and gaming etc. We've talked
about this.
A lot more women are less willing to
settle.
And of course, feminism has been a huge
issue. Feminism has always promised
liberation for women, but it's it's
delivered really isolation for them and
loneliness.
What are the consequences of this? Well,
you're going to have an upside down
population pyramid, right? Think about
that. You've got all of the the larger
groups of people, the largest the
largest demographic of of older
individuals is the largest demographic
and then it shrinks and then shrinks and
then shrinks and you have the point at
the bottom where there are the fewer
amount of kids being born and those
coming into the workforce are smaller.
You're trying to sustain an entire
population off of fewer producers
because the older generation h is is
retired.
And so I, you know, I come right back to
the family proclamation.
Focus on getting married. Focus on
having kids, creating families, rearing
children.
And if we're not able to get back to
that, which is the, you know, the family
is the basic unit of society.
We're in for a real shock as to what's
going to happen around the world.
Read the last two paragraphs of the
family proclamation.
It's a natural consequence. It's not
just God saying, "I'm sending down
thunderbolts."
It's a natural consequence of destroying
the family and and putting it at a
lesser value.
even within, you know, if you go to BYU
or if if you go to BYU women's
conference or some of the young women's
adviserss now, uh, in in church are are
telling the the the the girls, "Hey,
worry about your career first. Worry
about your career and put everything
else off." And yes, we want education.
Girls need education. They need a backup
plan. They need to be able to have
mobility in their economic status going
forward regardless of what happens with
them in the future. that that's all
important, but get married, have kids.
Don't put that off. And and I know that
becomes difficult, but you know what?
You do tough things. You go through the
salad days. That's okay.
Nothing is more important than your life
than forming a family.
And I worry that a lot of times within
the church, we get, you know, we're
getting that message. Boys aren't
getting the message of you need to be
challenged. You need to rise to the
occasion. You need resiliency. You need
to be able to lead. We try and hold that
down.
You know that we're becoming immersed in
our own culture, which is is, you know,
masculinity is toxic.
And and when we do this and we bring men
down and we don't allow them to be
challenged and to go out and lead, then
then you're you're going to minimize the
pool for women that need men that are
reaching up and leading. And if you
teach young women that they need to just
focus on their career and that careerism
is the ultimate thing, being a worker is
the ultimate thing, we're going to have
anxious, depressed women, lonely women
that are waiting too long in their lives
to form families and to find the right
men.
Yes, it's an economic problem. Yes,
there are other factors that are
involved, other forces. But the real
problem is a cultural problem in what
we're teaching our kids. And and at this
point, we are basically moving a large
rock up a mountain
and it may be too late. I don't know. I
I don't want to be doomsdayish. I don't
want to say that, you know, but but I
don't know. I don't know if we can turn
it around. I think it's that bad.
We do see a change in men coming back to
church, but we see women are leaving. We
do see a change in some traditional
values being implemented more into the
culture over the last year maybe. But I
think we need to be very aware of of
this birth rate, the fertility rate and
how it is going toffect affect all of
our lives. Now being Friday, I want to
leave you with something kind of fun.
When I was young, too young to have much
of a voice in this, my mom bought me an
accordion
and I learned the accordion for several
months. Had a I still remember the
teacher that came over. I was a little
kid and this accordion was massive that
I had to hold up. It was red with black
buttons on it and a and a black keyboard
with with white flat keys on it. And uh
it was huge and I played a couple
concerts with it and and you know as a
little kid um I never liked it. I did
not like it at all. But if I would have
stuck with it maybe I could have been as
good as this guy here.
This is Alexander Herustvich
Vivaldi's Leatra Stagioni or the Four
Seasons.
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Well, that's it for today. Have a great
weekend.
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