It Isn’t Low Birthrates That We Should Be Concerned About

Stop blaming women, and recognize the economic crisis making motherhood unaffordable.

Sarah Olson Michel
4 min readMay 5, 2023
Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash

Falling birthrates have a number of people concerned for the future of society. According to Elon Musk, doom awaits us if we don’t work on remedying this: “If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble.”

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Sarah Olson Michel

Perpetually curious, relentlessly optimistic. Navigating the world as a twentysomething hoping to become somebody.