Issue

The Future Is Low Fertility

For a complex of reasons, as secularism rises in the West, birth rates plummet.
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

The rest is in the pages of Common Good.

Already a subscriber? Sign In
Screen Shot 2023-12-19 at 12.58.26 PM
This story is from Common Good issue 10.
Scroll to Top