With culture being the top factor motivating people to have kids in even modestly gender egalitarian developed countries, the single most effective thing policymakers can do to protect fertility rates is to protect religious and cultural freedom, enabling high-fertility cultures to function without interference.

Despite this, many states systematically erase high-fertility cultural groups by obligating, either explicitly or implicitly (through cumbersome costs and regulations) forcing their children into state-run public schools, which facilitate cultural deconversion.

Education freedom and school choice is therefore one of the most important points of leverage with regard to pronatalist policy. Measures that make it easier for families to take ownership of their children’s education, be it through homeschool or private school, stand to make a huge impact.

Children born today are being born into a fundamentally different world—a world in which the rise of AI will profoundly change education, the workforce, and the economy, as well as a world in which antinatalist sentiment is pervasive in mainstream educational institutions.

If we are to cultivate a generation of people who will thrive in this world and be interested in carrying society through this revolutionary time, we need to fundamentally rethink how their formative years are spent.