family - demography

The shameful history of population control

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 25 June 2008 | comment 7

Countless millions of people in developing countries have been robbed of their human rights and dignity by a movement still regarded as humanitarian.

Cracks in the population consensus

Carolyn Moynihan | 21 June 2008 | comment 4

When the leading advocates of reproductive choice cannot agree, things begin to look interesting.

The empty European village

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 June 2008 | comment 24

Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need more government support, or less?

Upstart nation provides workers for the world

Rosa Linda G. Valenzona | 13 May 2008 | comment 5

By insisting on its own demographic path the Philippines has an economic strength that much of the world now lacks.

Demographic winter

Don Feder | 05 March 2008 | comment 14

The Earth might be warming up but its people are going cold on their own future -- and no-one in authority seems the least bit concerned.

The missing headline: ‘Unmarried birth rate rises’

Jennifer Roback Morse | 19 December 2007 | comment 9

Why did the media make a hullabaloo about a rise in the teen birth rate and ignore a much larger rise in births to unmarried mothers?

Save the planet; tax babies

Michael Cook | 12 December 2007 | comment 21

A carbon tax on newborns to reduce human pollution? Now there's an idea for your Christmas stocking.

The ultimate miserabilist

Michael Cook | 02 October 2007 | comment 30

Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you. 

Dogs in prams

Carolyn Moynihan | 05 September 2007 | comment 20

Childless Japanese women push the country's culture of cute too far.

Clutching at straws to reverse the birth dearth

Michael Cook | 04 August 2007 | comment 11

Subsidies don't work. Speed dating doesn't work. What about IVF?

Preparing for the grey-haired legions

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 August 2007 | comment 1

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" asked the Beatles. Sorry about this, but we're not quite sure.

Why are Christians deserting the Holy Land?

Alejandro Bertelsen | 20 July 2007 | comment 4

It will not be easy to stanch the flow of Christians from their ancient home in Palestine.

Shock troops in the culture wars

Patrick Meagher | 01 June 2007 | comment 25

When you have children you find yourself at the frontlines in the culture war. In stark contrast to "a child’s a blessing", there’s open hostility out there.

China’s one-child policy in the balance

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 May 2007 | comment 18

Will western values finish in the Asian giant what the one-child policy began?

Poor countries need freedom – and children

Oskari Juurikkala | 30 March 2007 | comment 1

The World Bank is out to destroy the most valuable economic resource: people.

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