Anomalies: Some Lessons From Large Families in a Small Family World

Governments that are serious about reversing the birth dearth might start by embracing the reverence for family, motherhood, and children.

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Commentary

In the past 60 years, America has traveled from Baby Boom to Birth Dearth. As Catherine Ruth Pakaluk tells us in her recent book “Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth,” the United States and many other countries are well below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman.