Can Governments Increase Birth Rates? Should They?

“On the left and the appropriate, in Europe and the USA, a consensus is rising: Individuals aren’t having sufficient children,” Cause Senior Editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote in Cause‘s June cowl story, “Storks Do not Take Orders From the State.”

Nevertheless, Brown cautions towards pro-natalist authorities insurance policies: “They’re extremely costly, they produce few or no beneficial properties in fertility, they usually can result in a disturbingly authoritarian type of governance the place particular person selections about household formation are deprioritized and girls are pressured to have infants for the nationwide good.”

Be a part of Cause‘s Nick Gillespie Thursday at 1 p.m. Jap for an unscripted dialog about whether or not governments can—or ought to—attempt to enhance falling birthrates. He’ll be joined by Nolan Brown and Scott Winship, a senior fellow on the American Enterprise Institute and director of its Heart on Alternative and Social Mobility, who has written extensively on myths and realities about financial and cultural decline.