This is a rather interesting article at The Guardian, all about how even in relatively conservative (and Catholic) Poland, the birth rate is in free fall.
As Noah Smith has said many times, no one has a "solution" to this issue.
I can never quite decide how much it should be worried about. I mean, I think it a great pity that more people don't get to enjoy child rearing - and seemingly don't realise how good it can be - but if the world as a whole wants to settle on a smaller long term population, that's probably a good thing from an environmental point of view.
Economics, housing costs, so much more entertainment available, no stigma to being childless, and watching their parents slave away on 60 hour weeks. The problem was caused by the previous generations.
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