Elon Musk, owner of tech giants like Tesla, SpaceX and own history as a father. .
Musk has fathered 11 children with three different women, two of them with Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive. It should be added that he had children with Zilis in a totally unconventional and non-physical way.
Zilis once explained that she and Musk were never intimate and that the twins were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Musk expressed her desire for intelligent people to have children, which is consistent with her concern about declining birth rates.
While Musk expressed his anger at those who have decided not to have children, even proposing to deprive them of their right to vote, the data shows that there are many other reasons why people do not want to have children besides a general lack of will.
According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey of non-parenting American adults in the 18-49 age group, up to 56% of respondents said they don't have children because they “just don't want to,” while 43 % cited “some other reason.”
Of the “some other reason” demographic, 29% cited age, 23% cited medical reasons, and 14% cited financial reasons.
The tech billionaire may be completely unaware of the fact that the expense of raising a child to age 18 for the average American has skyrocketed, reaching nearly $250,000; the cost of college is not part of it.
For Musk, who has a net worth of around $191 billion, raising even a child army is child's play.
However, there are demographers who do not believe Musk's apocalyptic assessment that the US population will suddenly decline.
