Cynthia M. Allen: A post-coronavirus baby boom seems unlikely. Here’s why that’s a problem

When the coronavirus reached the U.S. and the cascade of lockdown and shelter-in-place orders began, the joke on social media was that America was going to have a COVID-19 baby boom around Christmas. The intimacy (and corresponding opportunity) afforded by a forced quarantine, combined with the existential fear caused by the virus, could result in only one thing. Others warned that deferring …