As birthrates continue to decline in many industrialized countries, anxious governments are running out of schemes to keep women procreating.
There’s an insidious new tactic emerging for selling right-wing ideology to wider audiences, evident in last month’s
Budapest Demographic Summit for “family-friendly thinkers and decision-makers,” the upcoming pro-birth
Natal conference in Austin, Texas, and the recent film “
Birthgap.”
India’s population has just reached
1.4 billion people,
surpassing China as the world’s most populous nation four years earlier than projected. Spurring this growth is a
traditional patriarchal culture in which women’s identity is constrained by the social expectation they bear children.