Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pronatalist, aggregated by home.social.
#MAHA Is Still Creepily Obsessed With Your #Fertility
#RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen #sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s #pronatalist agenda.
#whitehouse #maga
https://www.wired.com/story/maha-is-still-creepily-obsessed-with-your-fertility/
📉 #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
“#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:
#demography #population #birthrates #decliningbirthrates #socialscience #socialsciences #russia #ukraine #conflict #demographiccrisis
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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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/
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.
Te weinig kinderen? Kweenie...
https://youtu.be/J4Xhx4BH-qA?si=-vRapYSQ0TJSGB1Y #baby #TomNicholas #pronatalist
Melinda Mills spoke about the important role of #demography, including low #fertility, #pronatalist policies, #pensions, #retirement, #health, #socialcare, #ageing, #immigration, and #politics on the IFS podcast with Paul Johnson and Carl Emmerson:
https://ifs.org.uk/articles/how-big-are-uks-demographic-challenges
#US #Republicans Are Embracing #Mussolini’s #Motherhood #Agenda
The #Italian #fascists’ #pronatalist #policies are being #revived today by figures from #ShadyVance (#JDVance) to #ViktorOrban and #VladimirPutin.
Ann Berrington was quoted in The Guardian yesterday, saying the implications of falling #birthrates for policymaking are “very significant... #Policy responses to low fertility have tended to focus on ways to increase #fertility,” she says. “However, many #pronatalist policies do not work, especially cash benefits, as they tend to just bring forward in time births that would happen anyway, and not increase the overall number of births.”
I'll see your "White Nationalist" and raise you "The Religion of the Future Police"
Ten years ago, Google hired Ray Kurzweil, prophet of the Singularity.
In 2015, Google engineer Anthony Levandowski started The Way of the Future, a church to worship super-intelligent AI.
And now we have the #Religion of the #Future #Police, began by former Google manager #Malcolm #Collins and his wife #Simone.
The Collinses came to my attention last month, thanks to a great article by Julia Black in Business Insider, called ‘Can Super Babies Save the World’.
They’re the founders of #pronatalist.org, and part of a pronatalist movement growing in Silicon Valley and around the world.
Pronatalists think the world is facing a population crisis: not too many people, but too few. They think civilization is threatened because of lowering birth rates, ageing populations and plummeting male fertility (average sperm count fell 50% between 1973 and 2019, and no one is sure why).
The Collinses write: ‘Only cultures with a strong external motivation to have kids are well above repopulation rate at the moment; all others will enter the dustbin of history.’
"We need #more humans, and we need #higher-#quality humans, produced by #strong #cultures and #talented #families"
Like so many entrepreneurs, they dream of saving the world. Julia Black writes:
as long as each of their descendants can commit to having #at #least #eight #children for just 11 generations, the Collins bloodline will eventually outnumber the current human population.
If they succeed, Malcolm continued, ‘we could set the future of our species
https://julesevans.medium.com/the-religion-of-the-future-police-7882048fd9a3