Mastodawn

📉 #Education, #economic uncertainty and changing #genderroles are among the factors that have played a part in falling #fertility rates. Keeping the combination of causes in mind is essential for designing effective #policy responses

CPC-CG members Professor Ann Berrington and Professor Hill Kulu examine the evidence in a new #Economics Observatory article out today ⤵️ https://www.economicsobservatory.com/from-costs-to-culture-whats-behind-falling-fertility-in-rich-countries

#fallingfertility #decliningbirthrates #demography #socialsciene #birthrates #pronatalist #pronatal

From costs to culture: what’s behind falling fertility in rich countries? - Economics Observatory

Fertility rates have fallen rapidly in the UK and other high-income countries in recent years. Education, economic uncertainty and changing gender roles are among the factors that have played a part. Keeping the combination of causes in mind is essential for designing effective policy responses.

Economics Observatory

Centre for Population Change Sep 15, 2025

“#Pronatalist policies have been shown as ‘impotent’ in budging the long-term #fertility rates. The root problems are #economic uncertainty, problems with #housing, #childcare availability and #gender #inequality in the household," said Connecting Generations Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills MBE in today's The Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/what-russians-really-think-about-putins-baby-boom-drive/

#demography #population #birthrates #decliningbirthrates #socialscience #socialsciences #russia #ukraine #conflict #demographiccrisis

John Quiggin Jul 13, 2025

A standard #pronatalist argument is that we need more kids so that there will be someone to look after old people later on. TIL that Australia employs almost as many people in child care (171000) as in aged care (258 000). That doesn't count the work of parents.
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Crooks&Liars May 11, 2025

#MothersDay, #MothersDay2025, #pronatal, #pronatalist, #pronatalism, #Gilead, #JDVance, #ElonMusk, #Musk, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/pro-natalist-day?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=102245

Pro-Natalist Day

A cartoon for Mother's Day, May 11, 2025

Crooks and Liars

Court Cantrell does not comply Apr 24, 2025

Trump and his stupid Nazi "mothers" medal, the #pronatalist bullshit, and all the people involved in it can just fuck right off into the farthest sun from our galaxy.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-motherhood-medal-pronatalist-nazi/

Trump may soon offer a motherhood medal, an idea popularized in Nazi Germany

He wants to be known as the "fertilization president."

Mother Jones

Go Weapons Hot Apr 20, 2025

"#Fatherhood, for #Musk, ends with conception, except for lingering payouts. There is no discernible sense of mutual duty or responsibility between Musk and his children or between Musk and his children’s mothers, ...
Musk is rich enough to carry on his #pronatalist project indefinitely, and the world is full of women of childbearing age who could use $15 million. Musk descendants, therefore, may one day inherit the earth."

#family
#ProLife
#Conservative

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/elon-musk-fatherhood/682502/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvbQZhZBnGfU1dAbVLgMfUQ4

The Harem of Elon Musk

The DOGE leader is offering the Republican Party a very different vision of fatherhood.

The Atlantic

Rupert Cocke Mar 15, 2025

The #hardright has a problem. If a politican wins an election with promises to cut immigration, he or she will have to find #pronatalist policies that actually work or run the risk of crashing the pensions system. Please see my thoughts in the free weekly essay on my personal blog. https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/how-can-we-find-pro-natalist-policies

Can the Hard Right Find Pro-Natalist Policies that Work?

Europe's population is aging fast; and immigrants from Africa are waiting in the wings. Anti-immigrant populist parties of the hard right need to find pro-natalist policies that actually work.

Sharpen Your Axe

Chris Wellens Mar 12, 2025

The #ProNatalist angst about America's declining birth rate misses the obvious solution: free #childcare would solve the problem. The oft cited #ChildTaxCredit is a measley US$2,000 per year. That is a laughable amount that would motivate no one.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/what-is-pronatalism-right-wing-republican?CMP=share_btn_url