Sharon Lerner breaks down our widening class divide. She warns that "the rates of unplanned pregnancies and births among poor women now dwarf the fertility rates of wealthier women":
The declining fertility of professional women ought to be sounding an alarm, highlighting the extent to which our policies are deeply unfriendly to parents. Low birthrates in Europe have inspired a slew of policies designed to make it easier to simultaneously work and parent, yet here, because our overall birthrate is robust, we've had no such moment of reckoning.
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