Quote of the Day: Government Policies to Raise Fertility Rates Haven’t Led to Baby Booms

“Living with your mom is not the best romantic environment for finding your lifelong partner.”

LYMAN STONE, director of the Pro-Natalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies in Charlottesville, Va., on the large number of young adults living with their parents in Japan, which is trying to encourage marriages in an effort to raise the birthrate. Several such approaches worldwide have failed.