Family Inequality

CBS Radio and the way we were, WHCU edition

The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2025

Pronatalism is not sending their best

Most Americans who aren’t having children don’t want to (and not because of the environment)

Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world?

There is a tsunami of fake social science research coming for us, and the American Sociological Association doesn’t care

Factcheck: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual deviance

I was on Emily Oster’s podcast about marriage and didn’t even know it

Now in The Conversation: ‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society

Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)

Comment on After the Spike at UCLA event

Down the hatch, 2025

Year end book roundup

Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards

Me against pronatalism, now in The New Republic

Update: Political divide over science widening more (and now including moderates)

Stopping rules don’t affect the population’s sex ratio at birth

No two demographic transitions are alike, except when they are (China v. India, etc)

Ideal (family size) compared to what?

Child poverty in 2024 was a $62 billion problem

Let’s all use the right fertility rate terms and definitions

Four variables about that say a lot about the USA today (name the scale)

War on science, Douthat credulity edition

South Carolina has a lot of churches

Negative perception of falling birth rates in the U.S. is associated with right-wing people and beliefs

Data viz: Who thinks it’s bad if Americans have fewer children?

Reproductive agency and the power to not have a child

Origin of the term “race suicide” in 1901

What is growth for, JC Kumarappa edition

The rising marital birth rate and its emerging SES slope in the U.S., not explained