Birth rates have been falling for 15 years and hit record lows even before the pandemic. Parents and children are more anxious than ever before. What are the causes of this baby bust and anxiety boom, and what are the solutions?
In Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, AEI’s Timothy P. Carney tackles the economic and social factors that have set unreasonable standards for parents, diminished the value of family, and popularized a pessimistic outlook for humanity’s future. Please join AEI for a discussion between Mr. Carney and the Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg on the changes in policy and culture that are required to restore belief in the goodness of parenting and, by extension, ourselves.
Submit questions to Max.Markon@aei.org or on Twitter with #FamilyUnfriendly.
Agenda
5:00 p.m.
Introduction:
Yuval Levin, Director, Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, American Enterprise Institute
5:05 p.m.
Presentation:
Timothy P. Carney, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
5:25 p.m.
Discussion:
Timothy P. Carney, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Alyssa Rosenberg, Columnist, Washington Post
6:00 p.m.
Q&A
6:15 p.m.
Adjournment
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