The abandoning of religion in the U.S. and many other countries is playing a part in declining birth rates, it was reported.

According to Pew’s 2024 Religious Landscape Study, “religiously unaffiliated” people (atheists, agnostics, or “nothing in particular”) accounted for 29% of the U.S. population. That’s a 13% increase from 2007.

William B Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, told Newsweek that “there’s no question that growing secularization is another factor in falling fertility, both here in the United States and across much of the globe.”

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