Modern Wisdom · 2026-05-18 · 224 min · 44,976 words

Birth Rate Debate: “40% Of Girls Will Never Be Mothers” - #1099

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Why should anyone listen to anything that you guys have to say? I mean, you you've brought in an interesting group, right? I mean, whenever people like don't want to read something and they just want to like watch something to understand falling fertility, inevitably I'm like, well, there's there's this movie you can watch online um about how fertility is falling, why, what's going on? And I reference your work and I pass them basically to you. Um, I mean, I'm

I'm a demographer. I'm uh at some point today I will, during this conversation, I will probably try to draw a graph in the air with my hands. Um, you can, you can, you, you you can like lunge and slap my hand down when I do it. Um, but uh, so I mean, for me, I'm there's that. And then of course the Collinses uh are like practically the people who've like made this.

an issue for a lot of people. We're the punchable face of pronatalism. So I guess I'm kind of intro with like multiple people here. And then you're like It's so true. It's so true.

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