This is peak season for conceiving babies. Coincidentally, this December has also seen a debate over whether and how to expand the child tax credit, and that debate has brought more attention to another one: Why have U.S. birth rates been dropping?
On the American right, the line of division over this question is a little peculiar. Social conservatives typically fixate on culture, while libertarian conservatives emphasize economics. On birth rates, the sides are reversed.
Social conservatives tend to emphasize the economic causes for the decline, saying wage stagnation has made men less attractive as marriage partners and made raising a family harder. Blake Masters, the failed Republican Senate candidate in Arizona, spoke for this faction when he said that America needs an economy where you could once again raise a family on one income. (He did not detail how to get that economy.)
