most “talented” Americans were reproducing at a very low rate.19

When the birth rate is below replacement, the country tilts toward having more older people than younger ones.

Same-sex couples have a much more equitable share of the unpaid labour… until they become parents,8 which shows that gender stereotypes are only part of the problem.

While the number of childless women increased during the Boomer birth years, that trend reversed with Gen X when it began to fall

But for your Danish krone, I learned, you got a comprehensive welfare system, free healthcare, free education (including university tuition), subsidised childcare and unemployment insurance guaranteeing 80 per cent of your wages for two years. Denmark, I was informed, also had one of the smallest gaps between the very poor and the very rich. And al

Virtually everyone of childbearing age participated in the production of the baby boom.