The United States fertility rate is concerningly low and individuals should prioritize having children.

“If you have a choice between watching PBD podcast or making babies, go make babies. We need to make more babies. We're not. Our fertility rate is too low. We're at 1.58 and it's getting even lower.”

A fertility rate of 1.4 results in a significant loss of generational size that will lead to catastrophic social consequences.

“but the fact is that with a fertility rate of 1.4 you lose onethird of your generational size per generation so in only three generations we will have lost 70% of the children”

The decline in fertility is primarily driven by societal factors rather than genetic predisposition, as fertility behaviors are highly contagious through social learning.

“I think the model it lays out is plausible that like fertility behaviors are highly contagious and they operate via social learning”