another liberal to pilhas, she looked at the from brookings university of maryland scholar ing that the economic explanations don't explain the falling birthrate. and she said, surprise younger women might just want more out of children. so, yes, why do we care? i divided into four reasons. one economic reason the dependent ratio how many retirees compared to workers as grows that reduces economic well-being. two women actually do three the baby boomers reflect, un even if you don't care about there being fewer babies. 's something should care about. it has other root causes and other excuse me, other effects that are not great. and being fewer babies because babies are actually go.so let'st reason. the ecoratio, we now have more amerin tir sixties than. we have children under age ten. along with that, the working age population which used to steadily climb has now flatlined. so we're not getting more potential workers. mean? one easy example is vo as a as a writer, somwork from . right. and. now the fact that i nohawait tit working from an irish pub is not in itself a problem. a reason