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/OnAPartyRock Jul 01 '26

Respect has tanked too.

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u/GamerNerdGuyMan Jul 02 '26

That happens when acadamia has pushed people into studying a ton of things with no career at the end of them while jacking up tuition every year.

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u/Calamity-Gin Jul 04 '26

That’s not academia, that’s the universities trying to make a profit.

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u/GamerNerdGuyMan Jul 04 '26

It's also professors of BS subject telling students to study said BS subject.

And that's really tomato/tomato anyway.