family - demography

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.

Why high pensions mean low birth rates

Oskari Juurikkala | 16 March 2007 | comment 2

There's a simple reason for plummeting fertility rates in the West: pension systems have replaced traditional families and penalised couples with kids.

Japan’s culture of cute

Jennifer Van House Hutcheson | 13 March 2007

A refusal to grow up may help to explain the country's shrinking population.

FOCUS ON POPULATION CONTROL
Too many bachelors and too many grandmas

Constance Kong | 29 January 2007

China's one-child policy is already souring its phenomenal economic growth.

FOCUS ON POPULATION CONTROL Upsetting tradition

Martyn Drakard | 29 January 2007

An upcoming African Union meeting could enshrine a right to abortion in many countries.

Only child? Sorry, no job

Carolyn Moynihan | 15 December 2006 | comment 3

Having robbed millions of Chinese of brothers and sisters, the one-child policy is now ruining their chance of a job.

FOCUS ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Africa still desires children

Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige | 24 November 2006

A Ugandan doctor considers the West's 'gift of demographic modernisation' and says, No thanks.

FOCUS ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
’If only we had enough condoms’

Jennifer Roback Morse | 24 November 2006 | comment 1

Contraception has always been part of a package sold in the name of health, wealth and saving the world.

FOCUS ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Physician, heal thyself

Josephine Quintavalle | 23 November 2006

From the sexual and reproductive chaos of Europe comes a cry for the continent to lead a new birth control mission to the developing world.

Three (hundred million) cheers for America

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 October 2006

And two cheers for the population doomsayers -- because they need cheering up.

What population explosion, asks Uganda’s president

Martyn Drakard | 10 September 2006

In a few decades, Uganda will become the 12th most populous country in the world.

FOCUS ON KIDS
’There is no greater adventure than having children’

Adela Lo Celso and Alegria Duran-Ballen | 31 August 2006

Even a car company can see that more bambini are the future for Italy, but the government still dithers.

Is daycare good for babies?

Carolyn Moynihan | 18 August 2006

Not if the stress and aggression studies are anything to go by, says an Australian author.

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