The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday released its annual “State of World Population Report.” According to the report, the world is experiencing a fertility crisis and most of the policies implemented to fight it are ineffective.
“As policymakers and pundits raise the alarm about fertility rates, they often assume that if people are having children, it’s because they can and want to, and if they’re not it’s because they can’t or don’t want to,” UNFPA observed.
The report made the contrary argument, based on a survey of 14,000 people in 14 countries, that “most people want to have children,” but many of them feel “shut out of parenthood.” Over half of them cited “financial worries, including housing costs, childcare, and job
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