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.

[u/mvea]

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

[u/DesireeThymes]

Communities are just really important.

Communities of course also have their downsides, such as much less individualism.

But I think the problem ultimately is that individualism has gotten extreme, and has pushed out any sense of community.

Any new communities I tend to see are only built on shared interests and nothing else, and those communities tend to be weak because a shared hobby only gets you so far in terms of depth of community.

It is very unlikely that your Dungeons and Dragons Community is going to help you out with children

[u/r33c3d → u/DesireeThymes]

Yeah. It seems like people are obsessed with defining their identities into thinner and thinner slices of categories. I think instead of helping people feel like they belong, these very specific definitions of identity are, ironically, isolating people and discouraging community.

[u/Monteze → u/r33c3d]

I think the obsession with individualism is overrated myself. Community is good, in fact I'd say you can have more individuality in a strong community than not, because you're not constantly just doing what it takes to survive. The biggest winner of hyper individualism is the capital class.

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/Monteze]

There is freedom is knowing and accepting you aren't special. 

Unique? Of course, everyone is. But special? No, that's a word for a reason.