While the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was good cinema, it was also a big fat Hollywood fiction. With Greece's fertility rate of 1.36 children per woman -- well below the replacement level of 2.1 -- "big" is not a modifier demographers would associate with today's Greek families. In fact, a more accurate film might be called My Big Fat Muslim Wedding. Worse still, Greece is no anomaly. Long ago the cradle of Western civilization and more recently one of its backwaters, it's now part of a phalanx of Western demographic failures. In fact, while it may seem counterintuitive...