Lyman Stone is a demographer, researcher, and a writer.
It’s no surprise that birth rates are plummeting; raising kids feels harder than ever. Life is expensive, the future feels uncertain, and chaos is everywhere. So how do we reverse course? What would actually convince people to have more children and pull us back from a looming population crisis?
Expect to learn why fertility rates are falling off a cliff, why many young adults are struggling to have and even afford children in this economy, where mating preferences for fertility comes from, how women get their standards for men and who they base it off of, if men are suppose to be the breadwinners of a family this day in age, the real satisfaction rates of men and women in the workforce, why humans have such a hard time with big changes, and much more…
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“The the elevator isn't isn't fun now I Think you can like imagine a world where this isn't true. Okay, you can imagine a world where”
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find th…
“Correlational level when you try and look at mechanisms like okay, but why? The Simple story of density and fertility starts to break down really fast. So there's some things that are quite clear okay like”
“Correlational level when you try and look at mechanisms like okay, but why? The Simple story of density and fertility starts to break down really fast. So there's some things that are quite clear okay like”