Ask a Millennial why he and his friends aren’t having kids as much as Gen. X, and he’ll tell you, “we can’t afford it.” Ask a liberal how to fix our plummeting birthrates, and he’ll tell you, “increase federal spending.” Ask why France and some Nordic countries have more babies than the U.S. does, and you’ll hear, “it’s the social welfare state.”

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