Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
By Leslie Root, Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shelley Clark, Professor of Sociology, McGill University
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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