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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...

People To Have More Babies Republicans must become not just the party of workers but also the party of families. They should do it by upping Joe Biden’s proposed child tax credit into something bigger.As the Republican Party charts its path during a Joe Biden presidency, there will undoubtedly be calls from the corporate wing to return to the neoliberal orthodoxy that defined it under the Bushes, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan. This would be a profound mistake.President Donald Trump has repositioned Republicans as the party of workers with his focus on trade, industrial, and immigration issues. By crafting an...

I didnÂ’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but this year, only an act of God could stop me from doing so. In 2016, Trump had no track record. But now he does, and itÂ’s amazing. I didnÂ’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but this year, only an act of God could stop me from doing so.I make no excuses for TrumpÂ’s loose Twitter finger, and I still wince over the laundry list of cringe-worthy statements and undisciplined behavior weÂ’ve all witnessed for the past four years. However, what the Trump administration has accomplished is stunning.That has included landmark...

“Birth rates at an all-time low!” “The Germans are dying out!” “Catastrophic birth rates!” The headlines couldn’t be more alarming, but the statistics behind them lead to more complex conclusions. Jacinta Nandi and Ben Knight pick apart Germany’s demographic anxieties for Exberliner Magazine. If you’ve followed the German media in the last 10 years, or just strolled through a German park during the school holidays, you will have gathered that Germans aren’t making enough babies. The headlines are melodramatic and sensational, and the statistics are scary, pessimistic - and surprisingly convincing. German women, who for the past 30 years have...

Family Policy Network (FPN) is beginning a 6-month campaign to push for a new state-based approach to protecting children from homosexual activists in public schools. Please read this alert and utilize the Action Item near the end of this message to express your opinion to state lawmakers. If you would like to get involved in this effort or want more information, call me at 615-866-5242, extension 2. -- Ron Shank, FPN of Tennessee ---------- - ACTION ALERT - Restricting Homosexual Activists in Schools: Despite various efforts to ban activist groups like the "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network" (GLSEN) from...

Dear Friend: Family Policy Network (FPN) is beginning a 6-month campaign to push for a new state-based approach to protecting children from homosexual activists in public schools. Please read this alert and utilize the Action Item near the end of this message to express your opinion to state lawmakers. If you would like to get involved in this effort or want more information, call me at 804-419-4483, extension 2. -- Marnie Deaton, FPN of Virginia -------------------------------------------------- - ACTION ALERT - Restricting Homosexual Activists in Schools: Despite various efforts to ban activist groups like the "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network"...

About NOW's Family Court Report By Roger F. Gay June 26, 2002 The California chapter of the National Organization for Women released a new report alleging that the California family court system is biased against women. It is difficult to know how to follow that statement. Most readers have probably already reacted to it. You are laughing, pulling your hair out by the roots, or throwing your hands in the air and shaking your heads. It's something like a school of sharks complaining about the ocean because they might have to swim a mile to satisfy their feeding frenzy....