A Universal Basic Income is unlikely to solve our demographic woes
This is an unprecedented demographic change for the Irish state
US fertility is up slightly – so is abortion
What is not dominating the news.
For fertility to rise, people must change how they think about their families
How baby bonuses brought babies back to a small and dying town
Is the government panicking?
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
Italy is fabulous. Italians are wonderful. But in 60 years’ time, half of them will be of African or Asian descent.
The Chinese Communist Party has begun a heavy online crackdown of feminists online after recent indications that the country’s birth and marriage rate have dropped significantly. “In recent days, more than a dozen accounts used by feminists were deleted from the Weibo social-media platform as well as cultural-discussion site Douban.com,” reported the Wallstreet Journal. Weibo […]
People who travel to South Korea often say that the most delightful aspect of their visit was the Korean people, who are hospitable, friendly, and “civic minded.” But those notoriously nice people come up way short in one very important aspect: reproducing. In 1960, South Korea’s fertility rate was 6.0. In 2020, it was 0.84. […]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is an enigma to many in the lands formerly known as the “free West.” However, it would behoove us to take note of his opening remarks in his Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly (comparable to the U.S. State of the Union) on February 15, 2021. He began thus: Colleagues, Russia’s future and historical perspective […]