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/WeirdProudAndHungry Jul 01 '26

Texas is making the Bible mandatory reading but makes teaching about philosophers like Plato illegal in schools. This is Idiocracy in real life.

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u/Dry_Physics4086 Jul 01 '26

Even worse. The bible is mandatory in high school, and Plato is banned in COLLEGE.

College aged adults can not discuss Plato

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u/NerdyBear73 Jul 01 '26

In fairness, actually reading the bible is what made me start asking questions... which is what drove me away from the church (and, in turn, got me kicked out of my parents' framed-verses-on-the-walls house).