Out-Babying the Loony Lefties

Another optimistic factoid from Coffee & Covid.

 

...in the U.S., birthrates among self-identified progressives fell a full point from 2.8 kids per mother in the 1970’s to only 1.8 by 2024— below replacement levels. Meanwhile, for conservatives, the decline was much smaller, dropping only 0.1 to 2.7 kids per mother. The same appears true for the rest of the world, too.

In other words, conservatives are maintaining relatively stable fertility levels, while progressives’ rates have, like a cartoon coyote holding an anvil, plummeted off a cliff. Just since the 1970’s. “From the US to Europe and beyond,” the story said, “people who identify as conservative are having almost as many children as they were decades ago. The decline is overwhelmingly among those on the progressive left.”...

That from the London Financial Times.

Heh.  And babies are fun, too!!