October 30, 2018 The Topic: Babies, Education and Choice in Africa The News Story: Mothers of Big Families Challenge Macron’s Fertility Stance The New Research: The Contraceptive Mindset Invades the Gambia “French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism from mothers with big families both at home and abroad for comments he made about women and […]
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September 6, 2018 The Topic: A New Take on the Population Bomb The News Story: South Korea’s Fertility Rate Set to Hit Record Low of 0.96 The New Research: The European Welfare State—Strained by Infertility In 1968, American biologist Paul Erlich published his highly controversial The Population Bomb, in which he predicted that in the coming […]
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August 28, 2018 The Topic: Burned-Out Mothers Worldwide The News Story: In Japan, Working Mothers Battle Overwork Culture The New Research: Underestimating the “Mommy Effect” in the U.S. and U.K. The News Story: In Japan, Working Mothers Battle Overwork Culture “In Japan,” reports a recent news story, “long working hours is a serious issue for […]
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August 14, 2018 The Topic: Who Will Care for the Elderly? The News Story: Aging Japan—Robots May Have Role in Future of Elder Care The New Research: How Brazil’s Retreat From Childbearing is Making Elder Care Difficult The News Story: Aging Japan—Robots May Have Role in Future of Elder Care Japan was one of the […]
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July 25, 2018 The Topic: Cohabiting Well, but Losing Net Worth The News Story: You Must Talk About These Five Things Before Moving In Together. The New Research: Cohabitation—the Long-Term Financial Damage The News Story: You Must Talk About These Five Things Before Moving In Together “Living with a romantic partner without marriage – cohabitation […]
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 The Topic: Falling Birthrates, Plummeting Economy The News Story: U.S. Births Dip to 30-Year Low The New Research: Roots of Recession The News Story: U.S. Births Dip to 30-Year Low “The birthrate fell for nearly every group of women of reproductive age in the U.S. in 2017,” dispassionately reports NPR, “reflecting […]
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June 26, 2018 The Topic: Real Suicide Prevention The News Story: Are Suicides Really Preventable? The New Research: Preventing Suicide—Family Connections as Safety Net The News Story: Are Suicides Really Preventable? In the wake of the suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade in the past few weeks, multiple media outlets have focused on the […]
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June 12, 2018 The Topic: Growing Acceptance of a Dangerous Addiction The News Story: More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable The New Research: Internet Pornography—Akin to Cocaine The News Story: More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable A recent Gallup poll reveals that a whopping 43% of Americans now believe that pornography is “morally […]
Read MoreProgressives always style themselves as champions of children. Yet these defenders of children often evince a curious insouciance about a social circumstance—namely, parental absence—known to put children at risk. A new study establishing that children suffer when they lose contact with parents comes out of China, where many hard-pressed rural parents have in recent years […]
Read MorePediatricians have understood for some time that breastfeeding delivers remarkable benefits—nutritional, immunological, developmental—to infants. But these benefits have counted for little among the feminist activists pushing ever more women into full-time employment, and away from wedlock. Just how fully the feminist agenda jeopardizes babies needing breastfeeding shows up distinctly in a new study of infant-feeding […]
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