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You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Anastasia Berg.
I'm a philosophy professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the co author of what Are Children For An Ambivalence and Choice.
It's easy to dismiss declining birth rates as the kind of thing that conservatives who are worried about family values or the national population should worry about.
But I think that there is something here that liberals and progressives should care and in fact, worry about.
Increasingly, young people from progressive and liberal circumstances are finding it harder to navigate the question of whether or not to have children, which is to say, one of the most important personal decisions they're going to be making in their lives and one of great ethical and political significance.
We see the gap between the number of children that people say they would have wanted and the number that they actually have steadily increasing.
But I found that the question of children has become the kind of thing that young people increasingly uncomfortable to raise, to think about personally, to discuss socially.
And this situation is exacerbated by a political climate in which having children becomes increasingly coded as conservative and reactionary.
So people are finding themselves paralyzed by indecision.
And that, for me, is the problem.
That's what I'm hoping to address and alleviate.
So there are a number of factors driving them to ignore the question of children for as long as possible.