US birth rate fell last year
Ageing population
Agency predicts deaths will outnumber births
Baby bust
Population projected to shrink by 25% by 2070
Whatever the fate of the Government at the election, she will be one of the few senior ministers to emerge from this Dáil with her reputation amongst her peers, and the wider electorate, enhanced.
China is acknowledging the escalating crisis and taking aggressive steps to counter it, the West seems content to let the chips fall where they may
The focus of state policy needs to be on making women feel like they are secure enough to have children. But isn’t that first, and foremost, the job of the men in their lives?
Dr Peter Boylan
The only way, ultimately, to reduce support for the “far right” is to show their voters that there is a better option. But the political establishment across Europe has absolutely no intention of doing so.
“Heartbreaking”
Maybe if we prioritised people over profit, family life would thrive.