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I interviewed moms with 5 or more kids − here’s what I learned about the women who are quietly going against the grain

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The U.S. fertility rate is the lowest it’s been since the government started tracking it in the 1930s .

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the number of babies born in America in 2023 .

Hannah Gainsains : Low birth rates aren’t just a crisis for societies and economies, but a fertility gap can be a big deal particularly for women.

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk: Economic theories of James Buchanan helped me see women as rational actors like all other women not as blind adherents to religious dogma.

Incentives don't have to be monetary, they can come from ideas and convictions, including religious values, she says.

She says the women overcoming the fertility gap adjusted their careers to fit their childbearing goals.

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