Author: unitedfamilies

Do the More Educated Want Fewer Children?

Karen Guzzo and Sarah Hayford’s recent research note debunks the overly simplistic idea that people with more education have fewer children because they want fewer children. Here, I describe their evidence in the context of other important indicators that show there is no simple negative relationship between education and childbearing.

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Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education

In “Burke on Our Crisis of Character,” which appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chronicles, Bruce Frohnen notes, “The American Way was real, rooted in families whose rights trumped the demands of the state because families were more natural and fundamental than the state.” The following month in the same magazine, Stephen Baskerville reviews a collection of essays, Up from Conservatism, in which he briefly addresses the pernicious effects of government welfare on family life and fatherhood.

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