Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
- Written by Leslie Root, Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future.gremlin/E+ via Getty ImagesPronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S.
As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the world, voices from Silicon Valley to the White House are...
