I was being slightly ironic. It's kind of funny that you would credit maternity leave policies and high transfer payemnts for raising fertility. Most of the lib

I was being slightly ironic. It's kind of funny that you would credit maternity leave policies and high transfer payemnts for raising fertility. Most of the liberals I know are effectively sterile; my conservative friends tend to have kids early and crank 'em out. It seems like some people are in favor of parenthood, in theory, and others are going to do whatever it takes in practice to have the number of kids they want. Guess which group claims to be more concerned about "Maternity rights!" I think that's what we're seeing here. Hispanic Catholics, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Neo-Victorians (http://web.archive.org/web/20070714214937/http://www.nyobserver.com/print/55828/full http://web.archive.org/web/20070714214937/http://www.nyobser...), and Mormons are all having lots of kids; secular people and classic WASPs aren't. Which makes the latter groups smaller and less relevant over time.