Blythe Terrell
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Free tequila?
No, Rose, I'm taking you to church.
And one of the researchers who was involved in this study, her name is Dr. Neha Diopa.
So what she studied, it all goes down in Georgia, in Eastern Europe, back in the mid-2000s, mid to late 2000s.
And where we start is that Georgia has its fertility rate that maybe doesn't sound that bad by today's standards, but it is below replacement.
It's about 1.76.
Yeah, which is, you know, kind of similar to where the U.S.
is right now, right?
A little higher.
And another thing going on in Georgia is that it has this very powerful national church, this church I'm talking about, called the Georgian Orthodox Church.
And as, like, a cultural institution, it's really strong.
More than 80% of Georgians belong to it.
And it also just, like, has—it's very strongly tied to the national identity.
So people are, like, into this church.