Immature Men Are to Blame for Britain’s Lack of Babies, Report Warns
Britain’s “missing babies” can largely be pinned on men growing up later and putting off adult responsibilities until much later in life, according to a new report. The Mail has the details.
Research from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank predicts around 600,000 young women may miss out on motherhood partly because men don’t feel ready for children until they get older.
In the report, called Baby Bust, the organisation says there are a range of reasons for falling birth rates including the cost of childcare, wanting to move into a larger house, prioritising a career or not finding the right partner.
But it also attributes some of the drop to a “delay” in the maturation rates of young men.
“In previous generations, children left school in their early to mid teens and went into the workplace,” the report reads.
“For boys this meant learning responsibility, earning money and being mentored by adult men. Boys matured and, in doing so, became marriageable.
“In 21st century Britain, adolescence now extends well into the early twenties.
“In the past, a 24 year-old man would have been likely to be married, have a child and have been working for the best part of a decade. Now, the average age of leaving home for a young man sits at 25, three years older than for young women.”
The report adds that the system now “expects and even encourages”, young people to not take up wider responsibilities, delay their rites of passage into adulthood and build up vast student debt.
Overall, the think tank says around three million women aged 16 to 45 are projected not to have children, compared with only 2.4 million in their grandparents’ generation.
These women have been labelled “the missing mothers”, at a time when Britain’s birth rate falls to the lowest on record.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in 2024, the fertility rate stood at 1.41 children per woman.
This is well below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1 needed to maintain current population levels without migration.
Meanwhile, the average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high.
“Nine out of 10 young women hope to have children,” the report says. “Yet, under current fertility conditions, the total childlessness rate in the UK is predicted to be as high as 30%.
“Unplanned childlessness is a major cause of grief and sadness for many.”
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Porn and computer games and not enough sleep and not enough exercise and not enough red meat.
And an education system which glorifies infantile behaviour.
I think I’m about done with experts pontificating on who exactly is to blame for various ills
That said, in my personal experience this is a “thing” though the “not ready” condition also applies to women
But enough already. Just leave people alone to do them, and I’ll do me
Don’t worry, they do not. The Mail article was written by a woman called ”Xantha”, FGS, and she’s deliberately framed this article with a sensationalist, factually incorrect title which probably says more about her feelings and prejudice than anything that’s in that report. It’s actually really embarrassing and reflects badly on her as a professional.
Just in case you wanted any bedtime reading, lol
https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CSJ-Baby_Bust.pdf
Thanks for the info
I heard a new term for this kind of problem… gynofascism.
The bottleneck to human reproduction is not males. I could literally be dead & my frozen sperm could be used to impregnate hundreds of women — if they wanted to become pregnant.
Point taken (in most cases, the woman has to want to become pregnant), but the freezing thing is not how it has ever happened and I don’t think it’s how it ever will happen. Most of the twenty something males in the UK with whom I am acquainted are, to put it mildly, rather… limp.
Yes, exactly. But the mechanism would not be frozen sperm. If men take longer to mature, then women that want to have babies will simply opt for a slightly older man who has become ready.
“Nine out of 10 young women hope to have children,” the report says. “Yet, under current fertility conditions, the total childlessness rate in the UK is predicted to be as high as 30%.
“Unplanned childlessness is a major cause of grief and sadness for many.”
Perhaps the 300,000 abortions (a record) in latest figures for 2023 may have something to do with lack of births. These were not perpetrated by men. Had these acts of killing live foetuses not taken place, the birth figures would look pretty respectable and and so the problem has nothing to do with lack of male maturity and more about prospective mothers chosen lifestyles
No. The reason for the lack of babies is Mat Hancock who brought in pills-by-post abortion during Covid (supposedly temporarily) with the result that 1 in 3 of our babies are conceived but no longer born (before it was 1 in 5). Labour didn’t rescind this rule. This deliberate political is existential.
When the contraception pill was introduced in Germany, people where still more honest about its effects. The drop in birth rates which resulted from this was called der Pillenknick — literally the pill-bend.
All of this wild guessing about what causes birth rate depression is as pointless as it is dishonest. Animals have a sex drive which causes them to reproduce, that’s the whole biological point of it. Western human society instead has a sex live as universal basic entertainment which is usually side-effect free. And that’s all of it. People aren’t getting children because they can.
Can I just say that the title of this Mail article is a 100% misrepresentation of that featured report, because I’ve just scanned through it. It does not find men are to blame whatsoever because it doesn’t focus on blame at all, only reporting findings from surveys. Yes, the excerpt above is made up of legit parts lifted from the report but what the author has done is put a total spin on the facts so that the title doesn’t reflect the content or the conclusions of the report at all. As has been said on this issue multiple times now: the causes for the drop in birth rates are many and varied because it’s hardly a black and white issue. Anybody wishing to reduce it down to the usual blame game ( or ‘male vs female’ finger pointing ) is somebody who is either of low intellect, for whom dealing with reality/facts is a challenge, or who views complex topics such as this through the lens of their innate prejudice. I thought the basic suggestions ( which are expanded on in much more detail in the report ) were pretty straightforward and sounded rather conservative, to be honest. Nothing… Read more »
Ah experts I see. Probably not worth the paper it’s written on.
There was a BBC article recently on ‘Why I regret having children’. There have been several similar in recent years, basically encouraging women not to have children. We could do with some articles on why people regret NOT having children. My in-laws in their late 80s, living near us, benefit from lots of help from their children and adult grandchildren. In contrast, I have an aunty and uncle living a long way away, late 80s, with no children, and obviously no grandchildren, and no other relatives that visit them Apart from me, but I’m three hours away, and I have the demands of grandchildren and elderly parents already. They have big health problems, and are in dire straits. They don’t want to go into a care home, but very soon there will be no option. I know people will say that you shouldn’t have children just to have someone to help you in your old age, and I also know that not all elderly parents live near their children, but, for most elderly people, since the human race began, that has been a benefit of having children!
I get the point but your stats on women not having children needs correcting. Population of UK in 1950 was 50 million. 2.4 million of them not having children equals 4.8%. Population of UK in 2026 is 70 million. 3 million of them not having children equals 4.3%. So statistically a larger percentage of women are having children today than back in their grandparents’ day, not less as you claim.
Of course the accompanying photo is two middleclass professional white men – famously childish types who shirk responsibility (one’s even wearing a tie ffs) – unlike non professional black men dressing like gangstas, or woolly hatted and pigtailed male protesters wailing about.. Gaza.. or some such.
As the mother of two adult (childless) sons, I would like to suggest that the potential risk of losing the house you largely funded and paying a substantial part of your income to a mother and a child/ren you are never allowed to see is a very effective contraceptive.
Just saying …..
You really have hit the nail on the head, RTSC !!!
That is the real reason, because rabid feminists have made marriage and children beneficial only to women, with family courts routinely siding with mothers against fathers, and laying such heavy financial burdens upon the divorced father, even if it’s the mother who has run off and committed adultery, that it’s hard for the divorced fathers to afford a new wife or more children or even a new house, since he has to pay the old wife and kids for decades to come, even though the old wife constantly tries to turn the kids against their father. He cannot win in this situation at all, so he naturally avoids it like the plague.
This was discussed in the pioneering book by Oxford journalist David Thomas entitled “Not Guilty: In Defence of the Modern Man”, which is well worth a read.
“David Thomas has written a book about men and what it means to be a man today. What are men’s needs and fears, their weaknesses and strengths? At the moment, men stand accused. Newspapers and TV screens are filled with reports of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual harassment. Academics, governments and the media assume that men are the guilty parties.”
“Using research from around the world, together with two years’ worth of interviews and first-hand reports, David Thomas paints a very different picture of the relationship between men and women.”
Nothing to do with their covid shots? Well that is good to know😂😂😂
The first paragraph of the Executive Summary:
Might I suggest that ‘maintaining our economic model’ is a poor reason for trying to meddle in the birth rate? Especially when all continents apart from Africa are reporting falling birth rates.
While it is probably true that there will be problems arising from falling birth rates these are likely to balance out over the period of a generation or so. There are opportunities too. Fewer people require fewer hospitals and schools. The housing shortage resolves itself. Man made emissions reduce (although I don’t expect the climate to be significantly affected).
Governments should adapt to the new reality, not strive to hold to an old ‘model’.
De-industrialisation had no impact? The wholesale removal of huge swathes of engineering professions from shipbuilding, mining, aircraft manufacture, steel and all the supporting industries making related widgets removed purpose.
Single mothers and female teachers have combined to feminise and infantilise boys. I call it the ‘play nicely’ syndrome. Their natural male aggression, which could be honed into positive action, then emerges as feral youths.
That you wrongly believe a bunch of stereotypical character traits and other properties which are never spelled out in detail are exclusively “women stuff” just shows your prejudices about and hostility towards women. It communicates nothing about actual women which come in all kinds of shapes and colours, from docile crybaby to war hero (as do men, BTW).
Not immature woke wimmin then?
You know the type, coloured hair, face piercings and daft tattoos. A degree, a huge sense of entitlement and self worth but very little inward reflection or critical thinking.
Well what do you expect? What is there for young British white men to grow up for?
Their culture is considered toxic and reprehensible as are they and the women they could marry are a bunch of toxic entitled narcissistic harpies that no one would touch with a barge pole!
Hear, hear!