Hi friends, in addition to a lot of “parenting news” in today’s new and expanded “It Takes a Parent” show, I will talk to Steve Moore, and ask him “where have all the European babies gone”? As the New York Times recently chronicled, birth rates in Europe have plummeted to dangerous levels, dangerous because people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves, support the economy, older retirees, etc. I argue the cultural costs – no more is there a sense of sacrifice to raise the next generation, or a sense that children are inherently precious – are higher.
Are we in the West increasingly too selfish to have kids? Is it possible the “birth dearth” will hit the United States?
Steve Moore, an editorial page editor at the Wall Street Journal and an economist who has studied this issue at length, will talk to me about it today at noon.
Tune in to AM1160/WYLL in Chicago, listen live at WYLL.com, or later listen here or get the podcast at NationalReview.com.
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