Fertility

Fertility rates are falling in the United States to the lowest level in the last 100 years.

Campus protests are spreading across the United States and into Europe

and the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Justice recommend reclassifying

marijuana in the controlled substances category.

We'll talk about these stories today and answer some of your questions.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean Macau. This is the Think Biblically weekly

cultural update brought to you by Tallit School of Theology at Biola University.

Sean, we got some great stories today and some really terrific questions.

We do, yeah.

I'm looking forward to first a CNN report on falling fertility rates in the United States.

And an overall really troubling trend, the report indicates that the highest fertility rates used to be for women

in their 20s, but now we're with women in their 30s. And ironically, the only group is seeing an actual

increase in fertility rates are women in their 40s but it's

still very low. The overall downward trend in fertility rates is continuing at a

pace now that we haven't seen in the last 100 years.

So here's, this is attributed in the article by women and couples waiting later to have children, particularly because of a pandemic or

economic conditions, and the demographic implications I think are really significant. In contrast, fertility rates are dramatically

increasing and have been for some time in the developing world. In Subsara

Africa, in a Muslim world,

those in particular.

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