Can Politicians Make People Want Babies?

The number-one reason young people aren’t having kids is that they “just don’t want to.” (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
J.D. Vance thinks so. But incentivizing child-rearing can only go so far.
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It wasn’t only women without kids who were displeased by Vance’s “childless cat lady” remarks. It was also pro-natalists: people who don’t reso…
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