Events | The Birth Dearth: Why the Decline in Marriage and Total Fertility Is a Genuine Crisis

Agenda

Fireside Chat

The Honorable Ted Budd (R-NC), United States SenatorAmy Kate Budd, Spouse of Sen. Ted Budd

Panel I: The State of the Family

Preston Brashers, Research Fellow, Tax Policy, The Heritage FoundationJay Richards, Ph.D., Director, DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy, The Heritage FoundationRachel Sheffield, Research Fellow, Welfare and Family Policy, The Heritage FoundationDelano Squires, Research Fellow, DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, The Heritage FoundationRoger Severino, Vice President, Domestic Policy, and the Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Fellow, The Heritage Foundation(Moderator)

Panel II: What Pro-Family Solutions Might Look Like

Lindsey Burke, Ph.D., Director, Center for Education Policy, and the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education, The Heritage FoundationRachel Greszler, Senior Research Fellow, Workforce and Public Finance, The Heritage FoundationRobert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage FoundationRichard Stern, Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, The Heritage FoundationRoger Severino, Vice President, Domestic Policy and, the Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Fellow, The Heritage Foundation(Moderator)

The demographic crisis in the United States is real and a threat to society as we know it. The U.S. and almost all developed countries are failing to replace their populations. In 2022, the total fertility rate (TFR) in the U.S. was 1.665 births per woman aged 15-44. This is well below the necessary replacement level of 2.1 births per woman. Among the 38 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), fertility was even lower.

This trend is a threat to the future of every developed country, including our own, especially because it reflects a decline in stable married families headed by a father and a mother. To solve this growing crisis, we need a genuinely pro-family policy agenda. To do that, however, we first need to understand the problem and identify what caused it in the first place.

Join Heritage experts, Senator Ted Budd, and Amy Kate Budd for an explanation of this issue and discussion of a policy path forward.

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