Why Don’t They Want You Talking About Birth Rates?
Chris Williamson, Lyman Stone, Stephen J. Shaw, and Simone Collins discuss why falling birth rates are politically taboo and how the left has struggled to build a pro-family message without abandoning feminist values.
The gist
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Data shows conservatives average 1.67 children while liberals average 0.87, yet around 90% of people say they want or have children.
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The left has left the pro-family narrative entirely to the right by failing to develop a version compatible with gender equality and career ambition.
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The guests distinguish panalitism, helping people have the children they actually want, from pronatalism, which implies pressure to have more.
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Dismissing the birth rate conversation as inherently sexist risks progressives opting out of family-building altogether, ceding long-term cultural influence.
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