Blythe Terrell

You're making a face.

Well, when you say it like that... Sounds creepy.

Somehow it gets seedy.

But overall, so there is a bit of evidence that these payments, like, might get some people to have kids earlier than they would have otherwise.

Yeah.

OK, but that can be good, you know, to sort of have if you want people to have more time to have more kids.

But generally, the best evidence we have is that it probably doesn't make that much of a difference to the overall fertility rate over the long term.

OK, another thing that's come up a bunch is giving people better access to things like IVF.

So Trump did make some noise about this at the start of his term, but seems to have backed off, actually.

And what is kind of interesting here is that making it easier to get IVF, like, it seems like it can increase fertility for older women, which you might expect.

But it doesn't seem to bump up fertility rates overall.

Right, right.

And, you know, there's a couple of other things that have been suggested to the Trump administration, like educating people on their menstrual cycles.

You know, you laugh and I laughed.

But it's actually it is true that people trying to have kids like don't always know their fertile periods, right?

Uh-huh.

So does that mean you need a class from Donald Trump on your administration?

I don't know, man.

But, you know, I guess the premise is not totally flawed.

Okay.