466 | Tim Carney: Are Falling Birth Rates the Result of a "Family Unfriendly" American Culture?

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Tim Carney, AEI Senior Fellow, Washington Examiner columnist, and author of Family Unfriendly: Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, joins The Realignment. Tim and Marshall discuss the cultural, economic, political, and technological roots of America's falling birth rate, the gap between the number of children that families wish to have and the actual number they have, government's role in family formation and social policy, the role of class and region in parenting struggles, and the ways that individual parents can make navigate an increasingly difficult social environment.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.
0:05.0	Quick note for a dive into today's episode.
0:11.0	Sager and I released the latest version of our Realignment Weekend
0:15.2	Ask Me Anything discussion episode for Supercast subscribers. We offered a bit of a
0:20.6	preview on Sunday if you'd like to have a full conversation though and submit your own questions and of course get the ad-free version of the realignment podcast go to realignment. supercast.com. Now on to today's episode I've got a great conversation with Tim Carney of the
0:36.8	Washington Examiner and the American Enterprise Institute. He has a new book
0:40.8	out it's called Family Unfriendly, How Our Culture made Raising Kids
0:45.3	Much Harder than needs to be. I kind of start the podcast off this way, but it's really
0:49.3	interesting that Tim Carney gets at this question of birth rates and childhood and
0:54.9	actually raising families through the lens of culture. There are different ways you
0:58.1	could think about this issue. You could focus on economics like the actual cost of
1:01.6	raising a kid, the actual cost of higher education, the cost of buying a house.
1:05.4	You could look at technology.
1:06.6	Jonathan has a new book out.
1:08.0	It's all about how smartphones have potentially endangered generations of children.
1:12.6	And of course, then you have the cultural aspect,
1:15.2	individual ways that our culture shapes
1:17.1	our decisions in these categories.
1:18.9	So this conversation gets at all of this.
1:21.1	Having this conversation also as a non-parent myself,
1:23.4	so it's always humbling to have that as well.
1:25.9	Hope you all enjoy it.
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