When the real-wage began declining in 1973, you get the dividends of abortion and non-child-bearing.
Throw in the shock of 9/11, then the financial crash of 9/08, now zerocare, nobody can afford kids anymore.
This is how you kill a Nation, the most important Nation in history.
When my wife and I married, we wanted to have 2 children and adopt a 3rd, with my wife wanting to be a stay at home Mom. (Sort of “practice what you preach”.) Financially, it turned out to be impossible. (We have a daughter and my wife and I home school my daughter.) It nearly makes me cry when my daughter writes that her Christmas wish is a sister...