> Please explain how a population that sees its fertility rate voluntarily drop below replacement will ever have it raise back up to replacement level. Fertili

> Please explain how a population that sees its fertility rate voluntarily drop below replacement will ever have it raise back up to replacement level. Fertility rates tend to fluctuate in relation to stressors like resource availability. > No little girl who grows up seeing few, if any women, have children will think to herself "I want 2.1 when I grow up!". Why not? Baby booms are very real. This is normal human behavior. Edit: Just one example would be the short-lived COVID baby boom. Remarkable how responsive people are to changes when you think that this is mathematically impossible.