Low birth rates aren’t just a potential economic crisis. They can tell a deeply personal story about women failing to reach their goals for motherhood.
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Is the disastrous impact we’re having on the planet affecting our decision about having children of our own?
Childbearing goals have remained remarkably consistent over the decades. What has changed is when people start their families and how many kids they end up having.
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Professor of Sociology; Director, Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought, Catholic University of America
