China’s demographic doom

Maria Sophia Aguirre | 26 November 2008 | comment 3

Amazing economic growth and a massive recession rescue package cannot save China from the drastic effects of its one child policy.

The Filipino front in the culture wars

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 21 October 2008 | comment 47

The heavyweights of the global reproductive health agenda are making an all-out bid to displace the church as the conscience of the Philippines.

Getting better all the time

Louise Staley | 01 September 2008 | comment 6

Where is the evidence that the planet is getting poorer, more polluted and hungrier

Singapore’s fertility woes call for a rethink of sexual attitudes

Nick Chui | 31 July 2008 | comment 6

Frenzied attempts to boost birth rates in the city state ignore one key statistic: abortion rates.

Family footprints

Michelle Martin | 24 July 2008 | comment 5

Economy and character building ensures that a family of 12 keeps its carbon output modest.

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 8

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 15

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 22

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?

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