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What really predicted fertility, the authors find, are attitudes about work and family.The world’s richest countries typically have the world’s lowest birth rates. The highest-income people in those wealthy countries on average have the smallest family sizes. Those two facts conflict with the broad perception, especially among lawmakers, that Americans aren’t having babies because they’re worried about how expensive kids are. So may the results of a new study out today, which finds that the more career-oriented individuals and wealthy societies become, the more their fertility declines. “Highly work-focused values and social attitudes among both men and women are strongly...

Sometimes if you fight hard enough and refuse to back down, no matter the odds, your truth is vindicated and prevails! For twenty years I have been labeled a conspiracy theorist, scaremonger, extremist, dangerous, nut case. I’ve been denied access to stages, major news programs, and awarded tin foil hats. All because I have worked to expose Agenda 21 and its policy of sustainable development as a danger to our property rights, economic system, and culture of freedom. From its inception in 1992 at the United Nation’s Earth Summit, 50,000 delegates, heads of state, diplomats and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) hailed...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Polygamy practiced by some 19th century Mormon men had the curious effect of suppressing the overall offspring numbers of Mormon women in plural marriages, say scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions in the March 2011 issue of Evolution and Human Behavior. Simply put, the more sister-wives a Mormon woman had, the fewer children she was likely to produce. "Although it's great in terms of number of children for successful males to have harems, the data show that for every new woman added to a male's household, the number each wife produced goes down by...

She's revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women's rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn't buy in to Alice's beliefs - her daughter, Rebecca, 38. Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she feels so blessed to be the sort of woman 64-year-old Alice despises - a mother. The other day I was vacuuming when my son came bounding into the room. 'Mummy, Mummy,...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 2, 2007Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Researchers at a cancer center in Seattle have confirmed what previous studies have shown: women who bear children have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. They say fetal cells “transplanted” to the mother before birth are a source of this protective effect. That's something that abortion denies.Scientists at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center presented their results in the October 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.They studied a concept called fetal microchimerism, which is the ability of cells...

Dr. Carrie Miles, organizational psychologist and professor at George Mason University, addresses the ever-changing relationships and roles that these issues have in modern society in her new book, The Redemption of Love: Rescuing Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World. On Thursday, June 22, Miles spoke to a young audience at The Heritage Foundation about her book, focusing on a specific chapter entitled, “Love in an Age of Wealth.” Recently returned from a two-week speaking tour in Campala, Uganda, Miles began her presentation by stating that “in this world, love is pretty much beside the point” and...

CHICAGO - Women can maximize their chances of having healthy babies by spacing their pregnancies at least 18 months but no more than five years apart, researchers say. The researchers reached that conclusion after an analysis of 67 international studies involving more than 11 million pregnancies. The analysis found that spacing babies too close together or too far apart raises the risk of such complications as premature births and low birth weight. The findings suggest that millions of infant deaths could be avoided worldwide with better family planning, said one of the authors, Dr. Agustin Conde-Agudelo of Santa Fe de...

Once again the feminist version of reality is under attack. The immediate cause this time is the appearance of Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, which demonstrates that young women who devote themselves to their careers and plan to begin having children in their late 30s are likely to end up childless. You might think that such an outcome is so obviously inevitable that it would hardly seem worth bothering to document in 300-plus pages. You would hardly expect it to spark a Time cover story, a piece on 60 Minutes,...

Three recent events - a new book by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the April 15, 2002 Time magazine cover story about it, "Making Time for a Baby," and a recent "60 Minutes" story by Leslie Stahl on the same subject - have re-ignited the ongoing debate about women balancing career and family. The current furor centers on the growing epidemic of childlessness, especially among successful women. In Hewlett's new book, "Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children" (Talk Miramax Books, March, 2002), she notes that many women who put off having children until their 30s or 40s...