Our daily moral panic about muh birth rates becomes so much darker when you learn how much of it is the sharp decrease in teen pregnancy
This plus the fact that they are actually NOT happy that more 40+ year old women are getting pregnant (in no small part due to the increasing availability of fertility treatments and IVF).
They don't want you to have 3 kids in your 30s to early 40s. They want you to have 3 kids by the time you're 22.
















