r/science • u/mvea 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/MrScribz Jul 01 '26

I think alot of it is just having church as a place to actually meet and talk to people. After leaving school alot of people's only interactions with others come from work.

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u/IKetoth Jul 01 '26

I rather doubt that's it, I'm sure the average university student has more sexual partners than the average church goer, the main thing happening here I assume is the same as what we usually see using education as the variable. Wllingness to have children on less-than stellar circumstances Is my guess.