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I interviewed moms with 5 or more kids − here’s what I learned about the women who are quietly going against the grain

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The U.S. fertility rate is the lowest it’s been since the government started tracking it in the 1930s .

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its provisional estimate of the total babies born in 2023 .

The fertility gap exists mainly because women are getting married later than ever in history near the age of 28 for the average American woman.

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk: Economic theories of James Buchanan helped me see women as rational actors like all other women not as blind adherents to religious dogma.

Incentives don't have to be monetary, they can come from ideas and convictions, including religious values, she says.

She says the women overcoming the fertility gap adjusted their careers to fit their childbearing goals.

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