Fertility rates are rising; let’s hope marriage rates also rise
June 2, 2025
President Reagan once said that “when so much around is whispering a little lie that we should live only for the moment and for ourselves, it’s more important than ever to affirm an older and more last setting set of values. … The family remains the fundamental unit of American life.”
A few weeks back, I came across a piece by The Heritage Foundation’s Rachel Sheffield on how fertility rates are finally beginning to rise after years of steady decline, inching up to 1.6 per woman but still below the replacement rate of 2.1.
