@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Why does Italy have such a low birth rate despite being Catholic?
Italy’s fertility dropped swiftly in the late 1960s–1970s. An influential NBER paper argues that Vatican II triggered a sharp decline in nuns (key providers of education, childcare, and welfare services that lowered child-rearing costs for Catholic families). This raised effective costs of children, predicting 300–400 fewer births per nun lost!!!!
Declining attendance also correlated with lower fertility among Catholics (but not Protestants). Italy is explicitly featured in related data on nun declines.
@Njeriwamwea84@RealGeorgeWebb1@RealCandaceO Yeah I’ve tried to follow the substack and it’s a lot of inuendo. Never actually connects any dots. But he’s making bank on those subs!
@Phyllis94584953 Remember when Tucker Carlson said in that New York Times interview that it’s weird that people close to Trump have bad things happen to them like cancer?