It’s not every day I get called creepy and am lumped in with eugenicists by a journalism professor. But also, it’s weirdly common for liberals in the media to level such charges at those of us who care about family formation.
Having children is good, both for people who have children and for the people who don’t have children. Birth rates are dropping, as are marriage rates. People say their ideal family size includes closer to three children than two, but we are having, on average, way less than two.
Because babies are good, a deficit of babies is bad. America currently has a deficit of babies — we have the lowest birthrate in our history, and births have been dropping for 16 years. This will harm the economy as we will, in a couple of decades, have fewer young adults to work, innovate, and generally keep things going. More importantly, a deficit of babies makes the world…
