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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

The Smartphone Theory of Birth Rate Decline Doesn't Hold Up

Just when you think smartphone panic can't get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why people worldwide are having fewer kids.

There's one very simple, very obvious flaw with this theory: Fertility rates have been falling for hundreds of years.

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