HotAirhttps://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/02/americas-falling-fertility-rate-is-the-root-cause-of-many-of-our-problems-and-its-only-getting-worse/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:29:44 -0400America's falling fertility rate is the root cause of many of our problems -- and it's only getting worse<![CDATA[Conservatives like to think that if we could just provide the right tax incentives for childbearing, then Americans might go back to having children the way they did 40 years ago. Liberals like to think that if we would just be more like France—offer state-run day care and other programs so women wouldn&#8217;t have to choose between working and motherhood—it would solve the problem. But the evidence suggests that neither path offers more than marginal gains. France, for example, hasn&#8217;t been able to stay at the replacement rate, even with all its day-care spending.]]>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:30:38 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/02/americas-falling-fertility-rate-is-the-root-cause-of-many-of-our-problems-and-its-only-getting-worse-n280922