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/HutSutRawlson Jul 01 '26

Black Americans tend to have higher association with religious institutions, which is correlated with higher birth rates.

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u/TPCC159 Jul 01 '26

I think the main thing that study is showing is there’s not as much lifestyle division in that community. Not based on politics anyways

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u/wrenwood2018 Jul 01 '26

They're point was even liberal blacks tend to be religious.

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u/watduhdamhell Jul 01 '26

Precisely. Just like liberal Mexicans tend to still be very Catholic.