“If people are having fewer children, there’s going to be a smaller pool entering the labor force 20 to 25 years down the road,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
“It’s a positive thing,” said Dr. Deb Ehrenthal, a UW-Madison associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and population health sciences. “Kids do better if they’re born into a more stable setting.”