Trends

Have you ever thought about why you do the things you do? Why do you go to school? Why do you take the escalators instead of the stairs? Why do you curl or straighten your hair everyday? One reason may be that you may feel like it is something you have to do. Another reason, it may be something you like to do. Similarly, it may be something you are told to do to fit in. All these reasons and more fit into the trends that so many people fall into. A few significant trends that are occurring at an increasing rate are the decrease in birthrate, decrease in household size, delaying marriage, and cohabitation. Many couples believe it is a good idea to cohabitate in order to see if they are complimentary to each other and maybe see if marriage could be an option for some later time in the future. Because of the increase in cohabitating couples, the rate of delaying marriage has increased. Due to less couples getting married the birthrate has decreased as well. Consequently, as one would imagine, the decrease of birthrate causes a decrease in the general household size. Delaying marriage, cohabitating, and delaying having children/not having as many children are all trends that we see everyday around us. These trends are influencing more and more people around us each day. We need to evaluate ourselves and see what trends are influencing ourselves. Our fertility rate is declining. On average, everyone women is having two children. If there are not as many children being born, then people will have to do more work to meet the same standard that more workers had to do. In order to keep the population from declining any further, we need to spread the word of having children in order to get the birthrate back up.