> This discussion comes up a lot on HN, and it seems to be one where there are answers, but people don't like the answers, so they go back to feigning ignorance.

A real interesting data point that made reconsider some of my assumptions on birth rates in developed nations is Israel.

There is a really interesting piece (albeit with a conservative bias) that can articulate this far better than I can. [0]

[0] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/danielle-kubes-the-truth-be...