Katherine Boyle

It's good to think about where you want to live, how you want to raise your children.

And hopefully that will lead to asking bigger questions about what does it mean to have a good family and what does it mean to be a good person.

It's fun to read just for opposition research.

It's a fun thing to read just to see, okay, like you might not agree with what they're saying, but it's like, wow, like they wouldn't have published that five years ago.

Yeah.

Yeah, or that they have no interest in relationships with women or that they have no interest in marriage.

But it was interesting because the article sort of blamed men for everything and it's like, well,

Yeah, like next week they need to have the men saying, why did the women disappear?

Why did the women change, right?

And I think that is a huge problem of why we have this birth collapse is that really there's just been a full-on assault attack on the family for the last 30, 40 years.

And so it makes sense why you see fewer and fewer people having children.

Oh, it is shockingly bad.

So we are now at 1.6 per woman.

Our replacement rate is 2.1.

It's been about, I think, eight years that we passed the 2.1.

And then there was a mild uptick in COVID.

So people were hopeful.

They were thinking, well, maybe it was just an anomaly those last few years.

But then there was a steep decline since COVID as well.

So yeah, we're at 1.6.