Child’s Play with Numbers

By Jonathan V. Last
Published August 3, 2011 2:45pm ET
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Child’s Play with Numbers
The New York Post had a long story on fertility rates yesterday, centered on the idea that lots of college educated women—and particularly Manhattan women—no longer want to have kids. In the course of the story, the Post reporter leans on some popular research and quotes a bunch of women who’ve written cutesy books about […]

The New York Post had a long story on fertility rates yesterday, centered on the idea that lots of college educated women—and particularly Manhattan women—no longer want to have kids.

In the course of the story, the Post reporter leans on some popular research and quotes a bunch of women who’ve written cutesy books about ambivalence toward motherhood. The money quote comes from Melanie Notkin:

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