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Category Archives: Fertility

Fertility and Marriage Declines Continue

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

 
[NOTE: The below report has been updated to fully include all the new information available in the 2010 Preliminary Birth Data report.]
JESSE POWELL writes:
The National Center for Health Statistics has released the Final Birth Data for 2009 and the Preliminary Birth Data for 2010. The pattern of “risk aversion” presumably in response to the economic [...]

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The Decline of Modern Women, Chapter 8,654,392

Sunday, May 23, 2010

 
Do you remember the glass slipper and the poisoned apple, the damsel with hair dangling from a tower window and the whole castle fast asleep? The Age of the Fairy Tale is past, dear reader. Today, we only have tales of self-fulfillment, of the social atom seeking fusion. Here is a perfect example.  In a new book, three women describe their quest for [...]

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Emmie’s Adventure

Monday, January 4, 2010

 
A Field Guide to Evil would be handy sometimes, wouldn’t it? It could offer graphics that look like geological cross-sections, with their observable layers of rock. Like the earth, evil is multilayered, extending into the past and composed of radically different materials.
Here is a perfect example of what I mean.
Lisa Belkin of the New York Times in her Adventures in Parenting series (take [...]

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Children No More

Thursday, May 7, 2009

 
Much has been said about fallen birth rates and what they mean for the economies of the Western world, especially for consumer and government spending. We are after all economic beings, are we not? We are only economic beings, yes? So whatever lower birth rates entail, it will be economic in nature, or so our wise demographers tell us.
 Less has been [...]

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