Take Japan as a counterpoint, or Switzerland just to name two that have been discussed on this thread and have a lower birth rate than the US. The extremism is

Take Japan as a counterpoint, or Switzerland just to name two that have been discussed on this thread and have a lower birth rate than the US. The extremism is mainly an american thing. Obviously is a continuum with total supervision 24 hours a day on on end and nothing on the other, and most societies fall somewhere in the middle, but this level of extremism is mostly an american thing.