It will never not be bleakly funny to me that national newspapers act like they couldn't possibly understand this. Do you read your own paper or nah? Because *gesture broadly at everything*, I think the answer is apparent.
As the falling fertility rate a factor in this ?
@zleap Not at all. Economic inequality and instability probably being first at the top of the list. How political instability factors further into economic instability, the increasingly public and hostile posture toward gender equality, all being among the dozen or so other reasons it seems real clear why women might say, "That would be great, but not now."
+1 I was actually going to mention some of this, but then remembered about fertility rates falling.
Given the state of the world, why would anyone want to raise a child, esp in the US, when the first week at school would probably involve a drill in case there was an active shooter in the building or traumatised if they bring in their favourite book.
@zleap I have no opinions on whether people want to raise children. I can see why people would still want to have kids. I just find it funny that falling birth rates seem shocking. It seems as clear to me why they wouldn't as why they would.