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Washington’s latest moral panic about fertility is nothing more than the elites gaslighting hardworking Americans about a problem they helped create. Global fertility has plunged to roughly 2.2 births per woman and the United States has sunk to historic lows in recent years — real trends, not the sort of liberal hand-wringing that passes for analysis in the academy and the press.
When ordinary people are asked why they’re not having children, the answers are blunt and practical: cost, lack of a partner, career pressures, and plain unwillingness to bring kids into an uncertain world. Pew Research found that many adults under 50 cite financial strain, worries about the state of the country, or simply not wanting children as major reasons for opting out.
So where are the solutions from the same sociologists and think-tank pundits who spent decades tearing apart the idea of family? Instead of policy that makes marriage and child-rearing feasible — affordable housing, competent schools, and reliable childcare — we get lectures about “choice” and op-eds celebrating childlessness as enlightened. That cultural rot matters far more than endless studies that politely explain away the very incentives Washington refuses to fix.
Meanwhile, the spectacle in Congress is shameful: lawmakers who lecture the country on culture and family are now pushing rules to make sure members can be absent for parental leave without losing power. A bipartisan resolution to allow proxy voting for new parents shows the game — the institution wants the optics of family-friendliness while the broader regime never actually prioritizes the policies families need.
This isn’t merely a demographic curiosity; declining birthrates and below-replacement fertility threaten long-term economic vitality, military readiness, and the social fabric that sustains civil society. International bodies and regional security groups now warn that aging populations and shrinking workforces will reshape geopolitics unless nations act to restore family-friendly incentives.
Patriots who love country and family should stop bowing to the fashionable experts and start offering real, conservative solutions: stop runaway spending and inflation that make raising children unaffordable, cut needless regulation that raises the price of homes and childcare, expand flexible schooling and school choice, and restore cultural respect for marriage and parenthood. Washington can nag and moralize, or it can get to work building a nation where having children is feasible and celebrated — choose the latter, and watch America thrive again.
