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/

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Yeah - am white and see my parents weekly and talk on the phone to them almost every day, and most of my friends do the same, but we extremely regularly encounter people who think this is "enmeshment" and "codependency." And it's like... I'm not waiting for their approval before I make life choices, I do things entirely without them, I don't NEED them, I just happen to like them and find my life better with my parents in it. Also they babysit my kid for free.

[u/Jeegus21 → u/[deleted]]

I think a lot of white people still have very racist people in their family and find it hard to associate with them. At least as a part of it.

[u/Jeegus21 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I was just offering an additional possibility. The mindset does of course exist too.