Why aren’t people having more kids? | Tim Carney | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 4

Tim Carney discusses America's "baby bust" on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.

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"To be a sane and happy parent, you need to be counter-cultural in our family-unfriendly culture," writes Tim Carney in his forthcoming book Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be.

Carney, senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the father of six children, talked with Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe about declining fertility in America and worldwide and why he thinks it's time for "governments, employers, and other institutions" to "abandon the idea of neutrality and instead take a side: the pro-family side." They also discussed the ways in which governments make it harder to afford large families by implementing counterproductive housing and labor regulations, the role that technology might play in increasing fertility in the future, and react to clips about DINK couples ("double-income, no kids") and discuss the enduring cultural relevance of Mike Judge's 2006 movie Idiocracy.

Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or on the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.