Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Why aren’t we having more babies? This seems to be a persistent question without an easy answer. There’s a growing anxiety around global birth rates. Every couple of days, a new story breaks on the looming population collapse or the downward trajectory of fertility rates in an area. What do we blame? Is it feminism? The destruction of the family? The loss of religion? The economy? No one seems to know, but an essay by Guillaume Blanc published by Works in Progress last year makes a compelling case worth relaying. Blanc’s research focuses on France and shows that the country’s baby bust began in 1760, almost a century before other European nations. … Blanc makes the case that declining fertility in France is due not to economic forces but cultural ones.” (02/12/25)