Comment Needs Policies to Promote Child Births (Score 1, Interesting) 255
As with all "westernized" countries that are looking at population cliffs. Hopefully policies can be enacted that promote people having more or even at least one child.
Right now things are far too overpriced, with a lot of uncertainly. With the proper policies and support that could be changed.
But this isn't just a US problem. Most of Europe, and the "westernized" Asian countries like Japan and Korea are also experiencing this exact same problem.
But when you have young people coming out of college with hundreds of thousands in debt who aren't finding jobs or housing. They generally hold off on starting families. And those that do will limit their size to be smaller than they'd like without economic constraints.