Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children?
I think the ultimate fertility-killer has not been secularization, or the Sexual Revolution, or really even the pill.
The primary culprit seems to have been the way 'parenting' has morphed into a kind of suite of ever-changing, high-pressure social obligations that seem to be almost 'moral' in... See more
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐x.comWhen people canโt move, neither can labor, families, or fertility. Thereโs a new study showing that housing costs account for about half the US fertility decline between 2000 and 2020. Itโs childcare too - a new paper from Abigail Dow reports that a 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate