Opinion | How the iPhone Drove Men and Women Apart - The New York Times

Why aren’t more people having kids? What has alienated the sexes from each other? If your government paid you to get married and have kids, would you? My guest this week, Alice Evans, might have the answers to these questions. Alice Evans, welcome to Interesting Times. Indeed. Thank you so much. Well, it’s a pleasure to have you, so you’re a sociologist at King’s College London, is that correct? Yes. And you write a lot about, and I think you’re working on a book, about the key social forces shaping the decline in fertility around the world. And those include, in particular, the failure of men and women to relate to one another and pair off. And those issues are part of why I’m especially interested in talking to you. But before we dive into why population decline is happening, I’d like to try and quantify the issue a little bit, and maybe help sound the alarm for some of our listeners who, unlike myself, haven’t been obsessed with this issue for years or decades and may still assume t

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