Malthusianism Masks Class‑Based Family Collapse

Contemporary anti‑natalist or de‑growth cheerleading often treats falling birthrates as a neutral success, but the decline is concentrated among less‑educated and unmarried women, not a universal preference shift. That means celebrations of lower fertility can obscure growing economic and marital precarity for specific groups and misdirect policy conversations. — Reframes population debates away from abstract environmental doom or abstract 'choice' narratives toward concrete class, marriage, and policy drivers of who stops having children.