“Perhaps the toll of our political division, Covid and the lowest economic confidence in decades is having a startling effect on our core values,” Public Opinion Strategies co-founding pollster Bill McInturff, who helped run an earlier poll on the issues, told the WSJ. The U.S. birthrate rose by about 1% in 2021 amid the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the first such increase in seven years.
Americans Care A Whole Lot Less About Religion, Patriotism, Having Kids Since Before COVID: POLL
