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October 18, 2022
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Why Some Americans Don't Want Kids
Patrick T. Brown
Institute for Family Studies

One of the most important questions facing our society right now is whether declining rates of marriage and fertility are the result of changing preferences or of economic pressures. The “two-income trap,” housing and child care costs, and student loan debt have all been blamed for people delaying or forgoing getting married or having children.

But some of the better research out there suggests that when it comes to declining fertility, it’s not simply “the economy, stupid.” Certainly some, perhaps even many, couples may be dissuaded from forming a family by the high cost of living. But the evidence suggests that the decline in parenthood isn’t explained by rising out-of-pocket costs, such as food, diapers, or housing, so much as the opportunity cost of parenthood. What would-be parents have to give up, in the form of forgone job opportunities or educational attainment, seems less appealing than what they’d get with a ring and a baby carriage.

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"Our national decline is real, and we had better face up to it." Brad Littlejohn explains how falling national life expectancy ([link removed]) ought to both humble and reinvigorate us in WORLD Opinions.
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3 Sinister Public Health Mistakes During Covid

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty joined EDIFY to discuss the downsides of the largest medical experiment on human subjects in world history. His insights on lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the weaponization of fear to enforce them accompany his newest work, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State ([link removed]) .

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