The article discusses the significant focus on women's behavior in the pronatalist discourse amidst concerns over declining birth rates. Highlighting headlines about increasing childbirth, it suggests that while women's choices are crucial, men's untapped potential in supporting childcare and household responsibilities often gets overlooked. It emphasizes the high costs associated with motherhood for women and notes that solving the birthrate crisis involves considering the shared responsibilities of parenting between men and women. Ultimately, the article advocates for a more inclusive approach to family roles.
Paying attention to women's choices makes sense, because when women can access birth control, they have fewer children. For women, especially educated women, there is a high physical and economic opportunity cost to having children.
From a birthrate perspective, here's the problem: There's a lot of unpaid care work that goes into raising kids and running a household, and women don't want to do it all.
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