AHC: Higher Modern Birthrate among European Americans

As the titles says, what would it take/ (have) took to have a Higher Modern birthrate among Americans of European decent.
 

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No world wars, Feminism doesn't get off the ground, birth control doesn't become legal, women don't get educated nearly as much as men, and overall economic development doesn't happen as much, which means less wealth and retirement options, so kids are the best deal to survive in old age.
 
It is clearly a multifaceted phenomenon but it's one of my pet theories that the skyrocketing cost of college education is one factor negatively impacting the fertility rate.
 
It is clearly a multifaceted phenomenon but it's one of my pet theories that the skyrocketing cost of college education is one factor negatively impacting the fertility rate.

Not really plausible. Most of the central and eastern European countries with the worst birthrates have basically free higher education.
 
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