I’m not sure how to answer the question, “Did you always want to have three kids?” It’s the sort of birthday-party small talk that catches me off guard as my mind wanders somewhere between what’s for dinner and what’s due this week at work.
he number of kids we have? That’s an amalgamation of choices that felt both eternally significant and flippant at the same time. There were the
Issue
The Future Is Low Fertility
For a complex of reasons, as secularism rises in the West, birth rates plummet.
This story is from Common Good issue 10.