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.

Summit declaration affirms natural family
Carolyn Moynihan | 4 Jul 2011
Participants from 65 countries at the Moscow demographic summit have reaffirmed the natural family as “the basic unit of society and the fundamental social value, that is a necessary prerequisite for the very existence of world civilizations and the whole humankind.”

Germany's demographic gloom
Carolyn Moynihan | 27 May 2010
Germany is struggling to solve its population and demographic crisis, reporting that last year births dropped by 30,000 and there was a net loss of 13,000 people through migration.

Chinese workers getting scarce
Carolyn Moynihan | 30 Mar 2010
Could China be running out of workers? Changes in the economy and education, combined with a mounting demographic crisis, confront employers and the government with big problems.

Sterilisation-for-land deal not catching on in Colombia
Carolyn Moynihan | 26 Mar 2010
Philanthropy and population control are familiar partners: the Ford Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation… one could go on, but let’s stop at Erwin Goggle’s House and Land Foundation in Colombia.

Australia’s population booms
Carolyn Moynihan | 30 Sep 2009
Last week, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced a 2 per cent leap (439,000 people) in the country’s population in the year to March, a huge dust storm blew in from the arid interior to blanket much of Eastern Australia. Are the two things connected?

Britain's new baby boom
Carolyn Moynihan | 4 Sep 2009
Demographers tend to be control freaks who get nervous if the population rises above or falls below some ideal benchmark -- zero growth, for example. But people tend to procreate -- or not -- with reckless disregard for demography. In Britain the average birth rate fell to 1.63 in 2001, but since then it has leapt to 1.96 (2008) -- nearly back to “replacement” level.

Dicing with death
Carolyn Moynihan | 2 Sep 2009
Germans who have invested in the demise of older Americans are getting angry that the latter are taking too long to die. Statisticians and medical experts are not as good at projecting life expectancy as they might seem to be.

Europe's demographic and cultural time bomb
Carolyn Moynihan | 27 Aug 2009
In Brussels, the top seven boys names recently were Mohamed, Adam,Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza. Mohamed is also the most popularname in Holland’s four biggest cities. Is anyone surprised?

Is India winning its war against gendercide?
Carolyn Moynihan | 25 Aug 2009
A badly skewed sex ratio in the Indian capital, Delhi, has suddenlycorrected itself, according to official figures. In the period from2005 to 2007, only 871 girls were born in Delhi for every 1000 boys,but last year the ratio had changed to 1004 girls per 1000 boys, theRegistrar Generals records show.

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