How baby bonuses brought babies back to a small and dying town
‘Value motherhood’
‘Motherhood is a right, not a privilege.’
Is the government panicking?
We are doing our best to ensure that the old people of the future are never born.
Scandinavian sketches – signs of life among the Nordics
The most popular newborn baby name in the Belgian capital of Brussels is now the Islamic name “Muhammad” according to the country’s national statistics agency, Stratbel. Two variations of the name – “Mohamed” and “Mohammed” – were two of the top three most common boys’ names in Brussels last year, with a total of 18,430 […]
Down 40% since 1970s
Despite environmentalist warnings of “overpopulation,” a Lancet study last year predicted that the world’s population will decline significantly in the coming decades for the first time in centuries. Yesterday Gript reported on the fact that Iran has enacted new legislation aimed at encouraging more births. Iran’s new “Law on Family and Youth Support” is part […]
Lessons for Ireland
Greying populations are a threat to the world economy
Over the last decade, United States population growth was at its lowest rate since the 1930s, according to a report released by the US Census Bureau in April. Population was up by 7.4 percent over the previous decade, the slowest growth rate the US has seen since the Great Depression. (These findings are a bit surprising since […]