What’s Really Driving the Birth-Rate Crisis

Young Westerners increasingly resemble captive panda bears who have to be pushed into one another and bribed with delicacies to be persuaded to mate.

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Flora Matty holds her newborn child Malaki after giving birth in the Family Birth Center at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., February 1, 2022.

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We need to talk about sex.

It’s an awkward topic to discuss, but one of the biggest problems in the country today is the almost cartoonish lack of interaction between young men and young women. A recent large-N study published by the Date Psychology network reveals that roughly 50 percent of young men have never or almost never approached a woman to ask for a date. Specifically, “in the entire data-set, 29% of men said they [had] never approached any woman in person before.” Another 27 percent said that they very rarely did and that “it had been more than one year” since this last happened.

Wilfred Reilly

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Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

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