Is There Any Practical Way to Increase the Birthrate?

[LSLGuy]

Reviving this long running thread to cite something I posted in another thread that in turn cites a post by somebody else in a third thread …

Leave the birthrate alone

Trying to get back to birthrates … Interesting cite over here: My summary of the article cited in that post: A study found that the advent of smartphones in 2007 just cratered teen and barely-20 pregnancies in the USA. While having much smaller effects in the older cohorts. Now, 20 years later, the effects remain strong in the now-young cohort but somewhat diminished in the then-young, now late child-rearing age cohort. Meta-point: Teen pregnancies are were, and have always been, a meaningf…