If you want grandkids some day, maybe start taking the kids to weekly mass and at least pretend to believe yourself.
Christmas is a time for children. Enjoy it while it lasts, because children are going slowly extinct.
What can be done to stop this slide into the slough of despond?
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?
Fifty years ago, Flint, Michigan was a thriving manufacturing hub of 200,000 people. Then known as “Vehicle City”, there were 80,000 auto industry jobs. In 1978, General Motors began downsizing Flint. Eventually, the number of living-wage jobs declined by 90 percent. Things were so bad by the 1980s that filmmaker Michael Moore released a documentary, […]
Ageing population.
Do kids bring more joy than career?
Fertility problems, withering testicles, and cancer
Irish Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys, who is responsible for pensions, says she’s not aware of any plans the Irish government has to increase birthrates, despite the demographic timebomb threatening pensions long-term.
#gript
There are big questions, I think, to be asked of Ireland’s economic model and the kind of society it has produced.
We could learn something from the Faroe Islands
US fertility is up slightly – so is abortion