This is one of those statistical effects that basically is never addressed. Childless men are more likely to say that they desire children than childless women are. So, there's now this meme that women don't really want kids, but men do.
But moms are more likely to say that they desire _more_ children, than fathers are. Since mothers are the most fertile cohort, both by natural selection and by definition, the easiest and fastest way to get the fertility rate up is to promote male virility among fathers, not female fertility among childless women.
Oh, of course. And more power to them.
It's just sort of funny how it's happening on a large enough scale to show up in the demographics and push the total fertility rate up. So many women that the demographers had assumed weren't going to have (more) kids went ahead and did. Now, there's a debate about whether they are even measuring fertility correctly and whether simply encouraging women like me to have more kids isn't the simplest and quickest way to increase the fertility rate.
The 20% of women who are childless will probably happily remain so, but getting women with 1 kid to have 2, or with 2 kids to have 3, is low-hanging fruit that everyone has basically been ignoring, since we repeatedly poll as wanting more children than we have.
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