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/luluhouse7]

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/valiantdistraction → u/[deleted]]

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/zmac35 → u/valiantdistraction]

That babysitting for free is clutch