2024-10-23
7 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I am Jessica Gross.
I am an opinion writer at the New York Times and I cover family, religion, and the way we live now.
Well, the fertility rate in the United States has been trending downward for decades.
And now a new report shows the rate is the lowest in more than a century.
According to the CDC, 3.6 million babies were born in 2023 in the U.S.
that's about 76,000 fewer than the previous.
Year, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 that would allow a generation to completely replace itself.
There is a lot of media coverage of the falling birth rate around the world, but the story is almost always framed negatively.
More women than ever are choosing to be child free.
The downward trend is, quote, a a reflection of a society increasingly soaked in an anti family ideology that views children as burdens.
But modern feminist working women and boss babe culture is taking over.
Speaking of culture, often this is framed as like, what's wrong with women?