Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Population and Ideology

This has been my pet topic, and the overall purpose for this blog. With the advent of universally available birth control, child bearing is essentially "optional" which (as a number of demographers are just beginning to point out) means that the main drivers of fertility in the coming decades will be not economics and food supply but faith and ideology. The people who have lots of children will (in general) be those who want lots of children, and the people with few with be those who want few.

Starting from inception and moving forward, here are the posts of the Population & Ideology meta thread:

Kick Off
Abortion: Un-natural Selection
It's the Marginal Cases, Stupid
Population & Ideology
What's the big deal?
Your child's disabled?
Ratzinger on the End of Europe
The Land of the Wolves
The Roe Effect, Redux
Where Three Or More Are Born...
Greeley-Land
The Killing Fields
If Roe Falls
Reading Greeley
Living Too Long to Believe
Making Babies for France
Passing on the Faith
Chastity and Contraception
Catholic Population Trends
Marriage Demographics & Fertility
The "Childfree" Lifestyle