Carolyn Moynihan

Carolyn Moynihan is an Auckland (New Zealand) journalist with a special interest in family issues. She is Deputy Editor of MercatorNet and editor of Family Edge.

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 Jul 2009

A birth rate that has crashed to .88 children per woman and a population ageing fast have led officials in the Chinese coastal city of Shanghai to start knocking on doors to get couples to have more children.

Carolyn Moynihan | 5 Jun 2009

While President Obama was putting the finishing touches to a speech addressed to Muslims and delivered at an Egyptian university yesterday, an Egyptian doctor was the subject of a speech and an award at a United Nations Population Fund ceremony in New York (June 1). UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Dr Mahmoud Fathalla richly deserved the prize for making “a major impact in the field of family planning, reproductive rights and ending maternal deaths.”

Carolyn Moynihan | 16 Apr 2009

Even as it clings to its one-child policy, China’s one-party government is having to face seriously negative outcomes from at least three decades of enforced low fertility. Research results just published in the British Medical Journal by two Chinese academics and another from University College, London, sound a dire warning about sex ratio imbalances that will affect China’s social and economic life for decades to come.

Carolyn Moynihan | 4 Apr 2009

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 Mar 2009

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