America should support home ownership because babies need nests. Babies are future taxpayers. Babies are the future.
Is it any coincidence that in the wake of the housing debacle and the employment depression birth rates have now tanked to record lows?
No nests, no jobs, no babies.
Time has the story here:
[I]n 2011 . . . the general fertility rate (63.2 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44) was the lowest ever recorded; the birth rate for teenagers ages 15 to 19 declined; birth rates for women ages 20 to 24 hit a record low; and rates for Hispanic and non-Hispanic black women dipped. Some birth rates remained unchanged, like those of women in their late 40s. Only women ages 35 to 39 and 40 to 44 are more likely to have babies now than in the past.
