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Lyman Stone

What Lyman Stone thinks about family

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Demographer. Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies and a research fellow at Cardus, he writes about fertility, marriage and how family statistics are measured, and argues in public with most other people who work on the subject.

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  1. Our readingPeople aim at a number of surviving children rather than a number of births, so falling child mortality lets births fall without anyone wanting a smaller family.

    Their wordsthe key point is that as child mortality declines, live births can be allowed to decline without changing desired family size

    ↗There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece

  3. Our readingThere is no long decline in human family size: once child survival is accounted for, the two-century downward trend disappears.

    Their wordsWhat you can see is that the “long decline” of TFR since the late-19th century is… an illusion! It isn’t real!

    ↗There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com 5th of 5 in this piece