The U.S. birthrate languishes at its lowest level in history. So when our friend and colleague Herman Wong suggested running the numbers on only children, we lit up with the cheap joy of answering a question to which we already knew the answer. With fewer kids overall, Americans are surely cranking out one-hit wonders in record numbers, right?
Millennials aren’t having kids. Here’s why.
We found some answers when looking into a different mystery: What’s going on with only children?
Analysis by Andrew Van Dam
November 3, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT