“They don’t want to have kids because it’s too damn expensive,” the podcasters say to explain why millennials and Generation Z are having so few children.

There are plenty of reasons to doubt this simplistic explanation for our record-low birth rates .

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WAKING UP TO THE BABY BUST

First, the birth rate was higher during the Great Recession than in the golden days of 2019 or in today’s pretty good economy. Second, millennials and Gen Z aren’t poorer than Generation X was at their age, and Gen X had more children. Also, by official measures, raising a child has act

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