Demographic Intelligence’s Lyman Stone provides a broad overview of the confluence of factors that are causing fertility rates to sink across the globe in a lengthy piece for National Review. As D.I. readers know, falling birthrates can be attributed to industrialization, the widespread use of contraception and delayed marriage. There may be even one other factor at play ⁠— a declining number of people who believe it is their responsibility and duty to have children, be it to their religion, their culture or just society as a whole. As the “price tag” for rearing children moves ever higher, this too acts as a fertility suppressor. Read the whole thing HERE.