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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
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptionsUnfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future.gremlin/E+ via Getty Images

Pronatalism – 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...

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