They certainly have kept having babies.
It’s not critical we always have a population increasing.
“It’s not critical we always have a population increasing.”
Sure, if we are all okay with our entitlement schemes collapsing.
And if you subtract immigrants and the first gen children of immigrants, it's way, way below that. Native-born non-immigrant Americans have been falling short of replacing themselves via childbearing for the past 40-50 years.
The ideology was women-in-the-workplace cuz homemakers are, they tell us, parasites. The necessary enabling technology? The Pill.