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The average parent succeeds though, contrary to the average startup. Wiping a baby's ass and feeding it is very doable, and so is the rest. It's not always fun, but even the least gifted parents mostly manage not to kill their children.
This sounds like BS to me. In Europe, the Czech republic is the most atheistic country, and they have nearly 0.5 babies per woman more than very catholic Poland. AFAIK neither of those has huge numbers of immigrants that could skew statistics. In Western Europe, France has a rather high birthrate, also in the native population - once again, a highly post-christian nation.
In France, the issue seems to be that it's normal to have children, nobody expects women to drop out of the workforce for several years, and it's normal for men to spend time with their very young children. And you can find a nanny or a creche rather easily, so living far away from your parents or in-laws is not something that would stop you. Having children isn't seen as a life changing and life defining event - it's just something you do, and mostly not a big deal. I get the impression that countries like Germany (and maybe Korea) just lost that attitude, and the pressure of getting that huge and consequential thing right makes people simply question their ability - and avoid children altogether.
It seems clear to me that the incentives for having children aren't the same in religious and areligious societies, but the infrastructure for child friendly areligious societies can be built.
The closest commonly collected statistic which captures what I think you are talking about, is Female Workforce Participation. According to World Bank FWP and TFR are (including only OECD countries):
Australia 62 1.2
Austria 56 1.7
Belgium 51 1.6
Canada 61 1.4
Chile 49 1.5
Columbia 51 1.7
CostaRica 50 1.5
Czechia 52 1.8
Denmark 59 1.7
Estonia 60 1.6
Finland 57 1.5
France 53 1.8
Germany 56 1.6
Greece 45 1.4
Hungary 53 1.6
Iceland 71 1.8
Ireland 60 1.7
Israel 60 3.0
Italy 41 1.3
Japan 54 1.3
Latvia 55 1.6
Lithuania 59 1.3
Luxembourg 58 1.4
Mexico 46 1.8
Netherlands 61 1.6
NewZealand 67 1.6
Norway 64 1.6
Poland 51 1.3
Portugal 55 1.4
Slovakia 56 1.6
Slovenia 55 1.6
SouthKorea 55 .8
Spain 53 1.2
Sweden 62 1.7
Switzerland 62 1.5
Turkey 34 1.9
UK 59 1.6
USA 56 1.7
SouthKorea, Australia, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Japan, Poland are bottom 7 with regards to TFR, with their FWP in order being: 55, 62, 53, 41, 59, 54, 51. Not particularly low, Italy not withstanding.
The above data plotted, for whatever that's worth.
So no correlation. If you really really want to squint, there's a slightly positive correlation (which I did not expect).
It's basically zero correlation, take out the Israel outlier and the sign of the beta will flip.
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