Asked to name the most pressing problem confronting the American family, many conservatives would say its breakdown since the advent of the welfare state. That’s a valid answer, but a larger problem is looming today: a lack of family formation. Fewer Americans are getting married and having children.
Birth rates began to plummet with the generational shift from Gen X (born 1965-1979) to Millennials (born 1980-1994), according to professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge’s Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future. Fertility had been rising prior to the Great Recession of 2008, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewtrusts.org%2Fen%2Fresearch-and-analysis%2Fissue-briefs%2F2022%2F12%2Fthe-long-term-decline-in-fertility-and-what-it-means-for-state-budgets&amp;data=05%7C01%7CEvan.Myers%40heritage.org%7Cef3d8f9425b54ea0118608db9d9f888f%7Ccbd93b4867ea46759ee84178b273204a%7C0%7C0%7C638277080765269129%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4LXPnmtQjXnYrzqXlRijEk9VUa%2F35p7dtoPYPit3dso%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent Pew report notes</a>, but it fell off sharply after that, and has yet to recover.

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