Konservative soziale Einstellungen sind in 72 Ländern mit mehr Kindern verbunden, wobei die Auswirkungen bei Frauen stärker sind. „Konservatismus“ wird im weitesten Sinne verwendet und bezieht sich auf rechte Ideologie, Religiosität, geringere Unterstützung für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter und die Präferenz für Religiosität bei romantischen Partnern.
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Conservative social attitudes are linked to higher fertility across 72 countries, with stronger effects among women
A study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science found that people who endorsed more conservative social attitudes tended to report having more children across a large international sample, suggesting that these attitudes may be linked to contemporary reproductive patterns.
Social attitudes are broad orientations toward social life, including views about religion, politics, hierarchy, gender roles, sexuality, and authority. In this article, “conservatism” is used in a broad sense to refer to a shared tendency across attitudes such as right-wing ideology, religiousness, lower support for gender equality, and preference for religiousness in romantic partners.
The study builds on prior research showing that these attitudes often correlate with one another and that many social attitudes show some degree of heritability. That heritability is part of what makes them interesting from an evolutionary standpoint, particularly if they’re also tied to how many children people have.
Međedović found that conservative social attitudes were consistently linked with higher fertility. Participants who reported stronger right-wing ideology, stronger religiousness, stronger preference for religiousness in a romantic partner, and lower support for gender equality tended to report having more children. The associations were generally small—age was by far the strongest predictor of how many children someone had—but they were consistent enough to show up reliably in a sample of nearly 80,000 people spread across 72 countries.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-026-00476-4
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I have 5 kids and I’ll never be a conservative. Being a conservative mother is like walking with a blindfold on.
Some will use this to argue that these views arise when you have more children, whereas others will use this to argue that people with these views are more likely to decide to have more children. Interesting results regardless
This makes logical sense. If you convince women that their purpose in life is only to have children, reward them for having children and socially punish them for doing anything different, and teach them that they should not expect to have any personal life satisfaction outside of this goal, then they will naturally end up having more children.
Yeah, when you enslave women and force people to have sex with people they don’t want to, you get more births. You also get more poverty, disease, suicides, and higher child mortality.
So, depending on your own views, Conservatives will either be the ones responsible for the overpopulation crisis, or the ones responsible for out-breeding Liberals and ensuring no liberal government ever gains power again (in a few generations, once the out-breeding happens).
So, presumably in the future, society will be more conservative, as conservative parents have more conservative children, and non-conservative people are choosing not to reproduce, and thus choosing to make society, in the long term, more conservative.
Having more children ≠ Raising children.
Just ask Elon.
Conservatives are just doing what they do best and serving their corporate masters.
They are happy to supply a population of future slaves for the ultra wealthy.
Once again, Mike Judge proven prescient.
I am absolutely not a fan of eugenics, but it does seem like the people who breed the most are those who probably shouldn’t. It isn’t the „conservative“ part that is unfortunate, more the „social attitudes.“ Those people with big herds of kids often don’t really think through the consequences, or they believe they don’t need to because „God will provide.“ And on the secular side, they contribute to gender inequality, protectionism, lack of compassion for disadvantaged people, distrust of scientists and other experts, etc.
They’re also linked to overall happiness and life satisfaction.
id rather families had a few children and poured energy into them than having more because your religion pressures you to. If the population drops, so be it.
Conservative social attitudes promote having children. This is another political chicken and egg.
Fascists want to spread fascism. Fixed the title for you OP
Coincidentally there are conservatively at least 8 billion people overpopulating the planet already. I wonder who’s fault that is.
Yeah, my grandma had 17 kids foisted on her due to religious indoctrination and those kids largely raised each other. Lots of dysfunction and abuse hidden in closets and swept under rugs.
It almost seems like conservatism is akin to tacit low level bullying.