Kate Andrews, Washington Post - The French government is sending letters to every 29-year-old in the country to encourage them to have children younger....
It’s not going to work because in Western countries with flagging birth rates, nothing, so far, has worked. For all the governmental attempts with housing strategies, tax incentives or egg-freezing subsidies, nothing has reversed the trajectory of birth rates in a lasting way....
In Britain, marriage of young men is in “total collapse.” ...Individualism, smart phones, progressive politics, girl bosses and modernity are the usual culprits in a long list of explanations for why the U.S. marriage rate has fallen by 32 percentage points since its peak in 1949, or why the birth rate per woman hovers 0.5 percentage points below the 2.1 replacement rate. More
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