What Lyman Stone thinks about happiness

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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. 14 Oct 2025

   Our readingThe harm done by low fertility is that people end up with fewer children than they wanted, not that a society runs short of workers.

   demographics

   Their wordsI don’t see population collapse or lack of workers as the central policy problem: the central policy problem is human happiness, human flourishing, and the freedom to live life well.

   ↗Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece