Catherine Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons America is facing an aging population and a birth crisis among U.S. non-immigrant citizens. Most researchers point to two main factors behind the decline: the rising cost of raising children and a cultural shift away from traditional family structures. However, the economic argument weakens when you examine the numbers. The real issue is cultural, as the United States becomes an increasingly non-religious, liberal society that values lifestyle choice, personal wealth, comfort, and individual achievement over family and children. Proof that money is not the issue is that, on average, poorer people have larger families than wealthier people, both within the United States and around the world. 2021, U.S. families earning under $10,000 per year had…
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