5/29/2023 0 Comments The Baby Matrix by Laura Carroll![]() ![]() I had this book with me at the doctor’s office a couple days ago. The que stio n is whether this is a problem. In some countries, such as Germany and Japan, the population is shrinking at a rapid rate. The re’s no doubt the birth rate has be en going down. Last has a strong conservative bias and occasionally laces this footnote-fest with sarcasm, but there’s a lot of interesting information here, and it certainly provides food for thought. ![]() He details the efforts, mostly unsuccessful, that have been made to encourage people to have more children and makes suggestions for how to encourage more births. Last blames it on many factors of modern life, including the cost of raising children, women going to college and having careers instead of babies, the decline of marriage and religion and the general belief that having children will take all the fun out of life. Whom should we believe? This book is a slow read, a scholarly compilation of statistics that show the birth rate going down below replacement level in most first-world countries. Other authors tell us the ex act opposite. We’ll have a population of old people with no young ones to support them. Last to tell us that if we don’t start having more children, we’re in trouble. Last, Encounter Books, 2013.Īfter years of hearing that we have too many people on this planet and that we have to decrease our population, here comes Jonathan V. What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan V. ![]()
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