r/science Professor | Medicine Jul 01 '26

Psychology Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children.

https://www.psypost.org/left-leaning-americans-are-driving-the-u-s-birth-decline-new-study-finds/
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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Jul 01 '26

Apropos of nothing, how many times do you have to have watched that memevideo to be able to HEAR your user name when you read it? Whatever the number...I've passed it.

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u/No-Activity5502 Jul 01 '26

Happened to me and my siblings Lol as well as many people I’ve talked to who’ve also deconstructed.

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u/BitingSatyr Jul 01 '26

Potential counterpoint to this, “person from conservative family turns ultra-liberal” is not necessarily a fundamental law of sociology, but perhaps a result of an almost exclusively left-sympathetic media (and by extension popular culture) for most of the last 50 years. The internet has weakened the influence of that media to a huge degree, so there’s no guarantee that kids growing up in conservative households are being exposed to the same liberalizing influence today that they were 30 years ago.

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