The real driver of post-2007 fertility decline is falling births among unmarried women and a collapse in relationship formation overall
College-educated women are actually more likely to marry and have maintained relatively stable fertility
The sharpest declines are among working-class, Black, and Hispanic women and not corporate strivers
Rising wages have given working-class women more economic independence, raising the "cost" of having kids and making them choosier about partners
The sharpest declines are among working-class, Black, and Hispanic women and not corporate strivers
As a white guy it never occured to me until recently that the gender war shit extends to black people as well. But apparently, so I'm told, the inter-gender conflict among black Americans is actually pretty acute.
The first wave of passport bros who started the trend were predominantly American black men who got fed up with their local dating scene and started searching abroad. The other factoid that piqued my awareness was that the African American birthrate recently dipped below that of non-hispanic whites as of late 2025. I always just assumed that black Americans were quietly chugging along and reproducing at a healthy rate, but apparently they are now in worse straits than we are in that regard.
Rising wages have given working-class women more economic independence, raising the "cost" of having kids and making them choosier about partners
Where the fuck are these "rising wages" they speak of? Almost makes me doubt other aspects of the article.
