As the birthrate has fallen for the past 17 years, we have been constantly warned against “panicking” over it. The “don’t worry” folks and the “actually this is good” folks both have a favorite argument: People aren’t forming families less, they’re just forming families later.  

Often this is presented as not merely a personal choice, but as a sign of progress: Older marriage means more mature marriage, and later births mean more educated and more financially sound parents.

Economics writer Mike Konczal is the latest to make this argument, with a blog post titled “The Eldest Millennials Had the Same Fertility as the Youngest Baby Boomers.”

THE BABY BUST HITS THE 30-SOMETHINGS

The message of this post was received by liberal academics this way: “What looks like people having a lot fewer children than they did 25........

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