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Jennie Chancey | June 28, 2010
Marketplace recently ran a week-long series on China’s one-child policy, covering its history, the life of only children, parental expectations, exceptions to the rule, and the future economic repercussions of the policy. This is well worth listening to (and it’s a good idea to read the accompanying interviews and articles as well). In short, the [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 26, 2010
Way back in 1977 (which, in our pop-culture world, is practically ancient history), George Gilder wrote the following prescient words: Crucial to the liberals’ dream of escape from family burdens is zero population growth. Because each individual no longer depends on his children to support him in old age, many observers seem to imagine that [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 3, 2010
There have been quite a number of stories in the press over the past year about the health risks of chemical birth control, lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies that have pushed risky pills, and Planned Parenthood clinics that have used pornography to help raise funds for sex education and have even recruited underage girls to conduct [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 23, 2010
LAF’s archives contain many articles about the declining fertility rate and the coming demographic winter as births in developed countries have plummeted. Carolyn Moynihan recently attended a two-day conference in Barcelona that was centered around the theme, Whither The Child? The Causes, Consequences and Responses to Low Fertility. Her comments bring forward a lot of [...]
