While conservatives rightly talk up free markets and freedom to choose, their analysis of how the world works frequently tramples on their rhetoric. See their endless crisis-mongering about low U.S. birthrates.
There are countless examples of this, and Ted Jenkin at Fox News is the latest to traffic in the seemingly “wrong” choices made by Generation Z on the matter of kids. In his words, “America needs babies. In 1960, the average woman had 3.6 children. Today, it’s just 1.6 – well below the replacement rate needed to sustain a healthy population. If these trends continue, we’ll face shrinking tax bases, fewer workers to support Social Security and an aging population that strains the system.”
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