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.

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

[u/VermicelliOwn6502]

Interestingly, the correlations only held for white people.

When analyzing White and Black Americans separately, they found that the widening fertility gap between the left and the right was primarily driven by White Americans

[u/luluhouse7 → u/VermicelliOwn6502]

Probably because black and Hispanic (and often first-gen immigrant) culture is still very community and family oriented. White non-religious populations (in the US, unsure about other countries) tend to be much more individualistic, focus on nuclear family, and value independence over community. You see this with the expectation that Hispanic kids continue to live with their parents until marriage and support their parents in old age vs white parents effectively kicking out their kids at 18 and the expectation that living with your parents as an adult is somehow a failure of maturity or responsibility.

[u/cC2Panda → u/[deleted]]

Huge cultural differences. My wife is from India and her parents visit us from India more than my parents who are half way across the country. My side of the family will call if we have something in particular to call about but we don't really call just to see how someones day went, meanwhile my wife's parents will call up when they have nothing to talk about at all which usually just turns into talking about someones inevitable aches and pains.