Why Musk and Vance want you to have more babies
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5167898-why-musk-and-vance-want-you-to-have-more-babies/
Kirsten Stade:
But the drive to produce more babies is a definite subtext. We know this because GOP political leaders occasionally, in their efforts to impose ever more draconian restrictions on the autonomy of women and girls, say the quiet part out loud. …
Such a transparent admission that abortion bans and other pronatalist policies are really about forcing women into service to increase our population for economic and political ends, no matter the costs to their well-being, is rare. But the essence of pronatalism is the premise that the decision to have children is not just a personal one to be made upon thoughtful reflection and intimate discussion with family and friends, but a tool for external goals, usually those of men in positions of power. The decision is also, according to pronatalists, the duty of women and girls, whose purpose is reproduction.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5167898-why-musk-and-vance-want-you-to-have-more-babies/
Kirsten Stade:
But the drive to produce more babies is a definite subtext. We know this because GOP political leaders occasionally, in their efforts to impose ever more draconian restrictions on the autonomy of women and girls, say the quiet part out loud. …
Such a transparent admission that abortion bans and other pronatalist policies are really about forcing women into service to increase our population for economic and political ends, no matter the costs to their well-being, is rare. But the essence of pronatalism is the premise that the decision to have children is not just a personal one to be made upon thoughtful reflection and intimate discussion with family and friends, but a tool for external goals, usually those of men in positions of power. The decision is also, according to pronatalists, the duty of women and girls, whose purpose is reproduction.
Republican Men and Women Are Changing Their Minds About How Women Should Behave
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/opinion/trump-republicans-masculinity-gender-traditional.html
Elon Musk announces birth of ‘14th’ child – a son named Seldon Lycurgus
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/01/elon-musk-birth-14th-child-son-named-seldon-lycurgus/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/opinion/trump-republicans-masculinity-gender-traditional.html
Elon Musk announces birth of ‘14th’ child – a son named Seldon Lycurgus
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/01/elon-musk-birth-14th-child-son-named-seldon-lycurgus/
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion
My take: Are we worried about the wrong demographic problem? By Vivekanand Jayakumar
https://thehill.com/opinion/4954154-falling-birth-rates-global-economy/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion
https://thehill.com/opinion/4954154-falling-birth-rates-global-economy/
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Economists and politicians complain about declining birth rates and, yet, dysfunctional Western economies struggle to generate decent jobs for today's youth and less-educated men:
Our workless young: a scandal we cannot ignore
https://www.ft.com/content/97758751-98df-4bc7-8e9b-30cb1925e1d3
Almost a million Britons aged 16 to 24 are without an occupation, hopeless and forgotten
More men in their prime working years are neither working nor looking for jobs — here’s why
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/21/why-more-men-are-dropping-out-of-the-workforce.html