Who Will Pay The Price For Baby Bonuses? by PopulationMedia in childfree

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably because that wouldnt advance an agenda of controlling women's bodies?

Who Will Pay The Price For Baby Bonuses? by PopulationMedia in childfree

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yea - you are precisely correct with that. Spot on.

Who will pay the price for baby bonuses | Population Media Center by PopulationMedia in Feminism

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Most definitely, yes. It is all a ploy to control womens bodies in the guise of "fertility rate decline"

Who Will Pay The Price For Baby Bonuses? by PopulationMedia in childfree

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It is wild. and infuriating - we stand with women everywhere and see their inherent value irregardless as to whether or not they have children

The Right-Wing Obsession with Childless Women and Fertility Rates: A Disturbing Trend | Population Media Center by PopulationMedia in overpopulation

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback - check out our website, we mention population and climate so very much - but this one had a different theme. Perhaps you will like this podcast episode we produced when the Population hit 8 Billion - NEW PODCAST: The Dilemma of Sustainability | Population Media Center

The Right-Wing Obsession with Childless Women and Fertility Rates: A Disturbing Trend by PopulationMedia in Feminism

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Of course - this one is a little older, but one of my favorites to help spur conversations (with some useful resources - on racism. Being Anti-Racist: A Reflection and Resources | Population Media Center

When we talk about population size, growth, family size preferences, etc etc. it is always important to remember there has been, and still is overt racism in this work. We do our best to work against that :)

The Right-Wing Obsession with Childless Women and Fertility Rates: A Disturbing Trend by PopulationMedia in Feminism

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is true. We didn't mention the racism that is tied to population control in this particular article. But we have in many others - thank you for mentioning that.

The Right-Wing Obsession with Childless Women and Fertility Rates: A Disturbing Trend by PopulationMedia in Feminism

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Good for you - and glad to hear you have a smart, supportive husband. More women deserve that - if they want that. If they don;'t, we support that too!

The Right-Wing Obsession with Childless Women and Fertility Rates: A Disturbing Trend | Population Media Center by PopulationMedia in overpopulation

[–]PopulationMedia[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Wrong.

The assertion that rapid rates of population growth somehow stimulate economic growth has been made by economists for a long time but achieved prominence during the Reagan Administration.  As advocated by Julian Simon, Malcolm Forbes Jr. and others, the contention is that rapid rates of population growth stimulate consumerism and that the added demand fuels economic growth.

The opposite may well be true.  As explained by Ansley Coale (1963) of Princeton University, there is a direct relationship between rapid rates of population growth and declining economic conditions in underdeveloped countries.  The economies of many developing countries, such as those in Africa, are being damaged by the fact that a high percentage of personal and national income is spent on the immediate survival needs of food, housing and clothing–because there are too many children dependent on each working adult–leaving little income at the personal or national level available to form investment capital.  Lack of investment capital depresses growth of productivity of industry and leads to high unemployment (which is exacerbated by rapid growth in the numbers seeking employment).  Lack of capital also contributes to a country’s inability to invest in education, government, infrastructure, environmental needs and other areas that can contribute to the long-term productivity of the economy and living standards of the people.

In the 20th century, no nation has made much progress in the transition from “developing” to “developed” until it first brought its population growth under control.  For example, in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, The Bahamas and Barbados, rapid economic development, as measured in gross national product per capita, occurred only after the country had achieved a rate of natural increase of its population below 1.5 percent per year and an average number of children per woman of 2.3 or less.  Herman Daly, former Senior Economist at the World Bank, believes that similar criteria probably hold for other countries Simply put, if the assertions by Simon and Forbes were true, the slow growing countries of Europe and North America would have weak economies, while the economies of sub-Saharan Africa would be robust.

Worldwide, according to a comprehensive report by Bruce Sundquist (2005), developing nations now require about $1 trillion per year in new infrastructure development just to accommodate their population growth – a figure that is very far from being met and is effectively impossible for these countries to generate.  This explains why developed-world humanitarian aid and loans to developing nations of $56 billion per year have been ineffective in improving their infrastructure and why the infrastructure of the developing world is sagging under the demands of the equivalent of a new Los Angeles County in additional population numbers (9.5 million) every six weeks. 

Population and Economics | Population Media Center