Simone Collins
Simone Collins is an author and pronatalist advocate. Her work focuses on global fertility rates and demographic decline.
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In a few years, US Social Security beneficiaries will receive under 80% of their expected payments.
"boomers who are like like not my problem, they're still in just a few years going to be receiving only like under 80% of their expected social security payments, which are being paid for by Gen Z who's not expecting anything." (said at 0:01:32)
No published record matching the claim regarding Social Security benefit reductions to under 80% upon trust fund depletion was located in the fetched database records; this does not prove the claim false.
Qualitative research by Catherine Ruth Pakaluk on college-educated American women with five or more children found that most did not initially plan to have large families, but a positive experience with their first child served as the tipping point.
"Catherine Ruth Pakaluk did a lot of research on studying highly values motivated people who already have four. ... Her what she found when she when she interviewed these women was for so many of them and this is to your point their experience with their first child was really the tipping point. None of them planned on having a lot of kids and what happened that she noticed again and again was these women had such a great experience with their first kid." (said at 3:03:45)
No published record matching the qualitative research findings described by Catherine Ruth Pakaluk was located; this does not prove the claim false.
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