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From: russet

12/1/2025 4:17:09 PM

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Can technological progress help reverse the baby bust?
Writer/podcaster/Abundance guy Derek Thompson challenges the notion that the mid-century baby boom resulted from servicemen returning home from the Second World War, falling in love, getting good jobs in the postwar economy, and then using government programs to secure affordable homes in which to raise a family.

Thompson argues that, in truth, the war’s end was only part of the equation and that the true catalyst was advances in medicine and consumer technology (refrigerators, washing machines) that made parenting easier.

To his point, according to government data, the baby boom actually began in the late 1930s, long before WWII was decided, when the adoption of home appliances began en masse.

Today fertility rates are collapsing worldwide, and Thompson wonders if technology (e.g., better IVF or egg retrieval) could help spark another birth bonanza. —J.S.

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