Today, child labor laws make kids an economic burden. Mom has a job outside the home and gets squeezed if she has to take care of kids too. And you can't send the kids outside because the streets have become too dangerous.
I'm not advocating something here, I'm just pointing out what's going on.
Those moms are more than great. No way a collapsing birthrate can be put on them. But there is the 'selfish-me' generation who feel children would impact their life style and opt out.
But government policies are not without blame eitherfor forcing this life on mothers. Good paying jobs for men without college have disappeared or been exported. The 'marriage penalty' tax is around for years. Our social security 'ponzi scheme' requires the young to pay for the old while aborting the young and making the raising of these future taxpayers a current economic burden. Now missing those children aborted over these many years, we rely on importing immigrants to fill the job ranks.