Paradise Lost and Found:
TFR, Liberation, and the World to Come.
Much ink has been spilled over the last couple of years regarding the impending fertility crisis. The current Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in the United States is 1.67 births per woman, just short of the 2.1 TFR required to maintain a population. While the Fertility situation in the U.S. is bad, things are far worse in Western Europe where many nations ho…