Since 2008, the birth rate in America has been on the decline, reaching an all-time low in 2019.

A variety of factors have been offered to explain millennial's hesitants to embrace parenthood,

from economic fears to avocado toast to declining religiosity.

Today's guest argues that these common explanations aren't fully supported by the data and that an unsustainable model of high pressure parenting is to blame.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Saturday, March 30th, and this is an extra edition of Morning Wire.

Joining me to discuss his new book and the real reason millennials are rejecting

parenthood is father of six and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

and now author of Family Unfriendly Tim Carney.

Tim, thanks for coming on.

Thank you.

So you've written a book about why millennials and Gen Zs are avoiding parenthood.

A lot of people say it's because kids are so expensive, but you say it's not

primarily economic. What's your hypothesis?

So of course affordability has something to do with family and those decisions, but the fact is that

millennials are not poorer than Generation X was or than the baby boomers are.

Economists go and they look at the wealth and you just for inflation and they find that

millennials are just about as wealthy at a given age as Generation X was.

Also, it's just not true that wealthier people in America are having more kids.

If you go by income quintiles, you know, from the poorest of the richest, there's not much

difference.

In fact, the poorest quintile has a few more kids per woman

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