“They don’t want to have kids because it’s too damn expensive,” the podcasters say to explain why millennials and Generation Z are having so few children.
There are plenty of reasons to doubt this simplistic explanation for our record-low birth rates.
The Brett Cooper Show, Apple Podcasts
Madeline Mitchell, The Detroit News
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