Can Orgies Solve the Fertility Crisis?

In Los Angeles County, a Texas-shaped wedge that covers the coast from Long Beach to Santa Monica and is America’s most populous, the fertility rate for educated young white women in 2024 was functionally zero: of an estimated 80,000 to 85,000 such women (some college education, ages 20 to 24), there were 293 births — around six babies per 1,000.