Conservatives Misattribute Falling Fertility

National Conservative diagnoses of American family decline often treat it as a culturally driven attack by the left, but the article argues the trend is global and structural (e.g., falling birthrates in Asia), suggesting policy failure stems from broader social and economic shifts rather than solely ideological change. That misattribution leads to policy responses—marriage incentives, welfare reforms—that may miss the underlying drivers of lower fertility and changing family forms. — If conservatives frame demographic decline as a moral failure of the left, policy will focus on cultural enforcement instead of addressing economic, demographic, and institutional causes, reshaping welfare and family politics.