If you want more children, you are going to need more marriage

Published April 22, 2025 10:04am ET



If the White House is planning on unveiling a “new cultural agenda” designed to “reverse declining birthrates,” as the New York Times reports, it better explain why birthrates are falling and how they can be fixed, which the New York Times never does.

Throughout her article, Caroline Kitchener often mentions “declining birth and marriage rates” together, but she never articulates the link between the two. And it is really just simple math.

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