Shockingly, There's No Evidence of a Pandemic Baby Boom
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Despite some early predictions that the pandemic might lead to a boom of quarantine babies—the presumed result of people being bored at home with their partners for months—more than nine months later, it would appear that no such boom has occurred.
In fact, it’s quite the opposite: According to NBCLX, several states are reporting significant drops in birth rates over the last year. After simply existing for the last 11 months, most of us can probably venture a guess as to why that is. The postwar baby boom was driven by soaring marriage rates and economic growth, preconditions for the phenomenon that don’t exist for our current crisis, which has left millions of people out of work and devastated the economy. Not to mention that it’s been difficult to foresee an end to the pandemic, even now that our agonizing wait for a vaccine is over.