Contra the New York Times, falling birth rates are not good for women |
Rush Limbaugh used to tell a joke about New York Times headline writers. If the world were ending, Limbaugh would say, the New York Times headline would be, “World Ends Tomorrow: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.”
I thought of that joke last week when the New York Times published an article titled, “The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing,” for women.
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Turns out the end of the world is actually a good thing for women. Who knew?
The article itself isn’t completely false. Birth rates have declined since 2007, and they have declined the most among teenagers and women without a bachelor’s degree. And that is good! But births to married women have fallen too, not because married women are having fewer children than before, but because there are simply fewer of them.
If you step back past 2007, you can see that........