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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; Demography</title>
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		<title>Demographic Free-fall</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/demographic-free-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low Fertility and Economic Crisis By Father John Flynn, LC ROME, FEB. 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Sustainable development is the imperative of the 21st century and cannot be achieved without improving reproductive health: words expressed at a recent executive board meeting by UNFPA executive director Babatunde Osotimehin, according to a Feb. 1 press release. UNFPA is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the West’s Fertility War Has Left Women at Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/16/how-the-west%e2%80%99s-fertility-war-has-left-women-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/16/how-the-west%e2%80%99s-fertility-war-has-left-women-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Roback Morse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Roback Morse This article was first published at familyinamerica.org on January 10, 2012. Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men Mara Hvistendahl Public Affairs, 2011; 314 pages, $26.99 This brave and timely book has many strengths and one glaring, but understandable, weakness. The strength of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty and Population</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/poverty-and-population/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/poverty-and-population/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts Nothing much from me today &#8211; instead, for all of you who are more visual learners, here&#8217;s a video! This is on the beneficial effect that population has on poverty and was produced by the Population Research Institute. (You can also see another one of their videos in this earlier DID post.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Marriage Got to Do with the Economy?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/what%e2%80%99s-marriage-got-to-do-with-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/what%e2%80%99s-marriage-got-to-do-with-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Co habitation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning from the demographics. (From nationalreview.com.) Last week, when reviewing some of the family talk on the campaign trail, I mentioned a new study co-authored by Brad Wilcox called The Sustainable Demographic Dividend. As many National Review Online readers know, W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why America might pull through the demographic collapse</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/02/why-america-might-pull-through-the-demographic-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/02/why-america-might-pull-through-the-demographic-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Over-Population]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Denyse O&#8217;Leary It is mainly religious people who raise children, and more women in America are religious. First, the context: Modern political science &#8212; which readily understands imperialism, resistance, and clash of competing interests &#8212; does not similarly understand “the wasting away of nations.” That, says David Goldman, author of How Civilizations Die: (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 7 billion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/02/after-7-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Over-Population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Cook Demographic denialists are ignoring the perils of an ageing population. Like many others, the US-based Center for Biological Diversity was aghast at the arrival of the 7 billionth person today. “Overpopulation and overconsumption are the root causes of environmental destruction. They’re driving species extinct, destroying wildlife habitat, and undermining the basic needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ageing Population and the Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/05/an-ageing-population-and-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/05/an-ageing-population-and-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts A couple of related pieces today that both underline a theme that has been commonplace at Demography is Destiny over the past few months.  If you have to ask what that theme is then you obviously have not been reading with the necessary assiduity and I am not going to help you. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister”</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/08/%e2%80%9cnobody-gets-married-any-more-mister%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/08/%e2%80%9cnobody-gets-married-any-more-mister%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An urban high school teacher in Connecticut talks about unwed motherhood, fatherlessness, and how it affects the kids in his classroom. by Gerry Garibaldi &#8230;Here’s my prediction: the money, the reforms, the gleaming porcelain, the hopeful rhetoric about saving our children—all of it will have a limited impact, at best, on most city schoolchildren. Urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Babies in Portugal by 3000 AD</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/26/no-more-babies-in-portugal-by-3000-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/26/no-more-babies-in-portugal-by-3000-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts Bosnia and Herzegovina has another 650 years or so.  Macau has about the same.  Germany has just over 1500 years and Brazil another 3000 years.  Until what? Until their populations disappear entirely! This is based on some “back-of-the-envelope” calculations by The Economist that take the United Nations fertility rates for 2010 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian marriage in trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/24/asian-marriage-in-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/24/asian-marriage-in-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Asian marriage is in the news, with The Economist reporting on “the flight from marriage” in that part of the world and the London Telegraph noting the materialism which is delaying marriages in China. As we saw last week, divorce is booming in China. But young urban women are also putting off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the demographics, not the deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/20/its-the-demographics-not-the-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/20/its-the-demographics-not-the-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert W. Patterson This article was originally published at WashingtonExaminer.com. With his daring deficit reduction plan, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin deserves credit for courageous fiscal leadership. But he is painting Republicans into a corner if he thinks exploding federal outlays can be reduced without addressing underlying family demographics. As Hoover Institution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demographic Winter on Catholic Radio of San Diego</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/11/demographic-winter-on-catholic-radio-of-san-diego/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/11/demographic-winter-on-catholic-radio-of-san-diego/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my radio program on Monday, I will be interviewing Don Feder, talking about Demographic Winter and the World Congress of Families Summit in Moscow. Tune in on-line at www.catholicradioofsandiego.com to listen.  Or listen live in the San Diego area on AM 1000 KCEO. All you Lefties: tune in and find out if concern about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting old – the Reason for Our Economic Malaise?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/09/getting-old-%e2%80%93-the-reason-for-our-economic-malaise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/09/getting-old-%e2%80%93-the-reason-for-our-economic-malaise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts The world’s economies, especially in the West seem to be in somewhat of a bind. The markets around the world are currently in a slide; Europe is worried about Spain and Italy; the USA has had its credit rating downgraded by S&#38;P for the first time in its history.  It is therefore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.N.&#8217;s Imaginary Babies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/04/the-u-n-s-imaginary-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/04/the-u-n-s-imaginary-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JONATHAN V. LAST Low fertility threatens the world&#8217;s economic future, but a new report ignores the danger. In 2004, the United Nations published demographic projections suggesting that the world in general, and the West in particular, was in real trouble: Persistently low fertility meant that the population of most industrialized nations would shrink in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Musings from The Motherland</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/26/russia-musings-from-the-motherland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/26/russia-musings-from-the-motherland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Colin Mason I remember standing in my room in the Cosmos Hotel, sleep-deprived from airports and loaded down with equipment. The room may have once been handsome, but now its current condition is stale and threadbare — its blue carpet has thinned and its twin beds have sunken into visibly concave shapes. I turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior STD Cases Spike</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/14/senior-std-cases-spike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/14/senior-std-cases-spike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While adolescents are not as sexually active as we are led to believe, older Americans are more active than you might think.  From the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel: Across the nation, and especially in communities that attract a lot of older Americans, the free-love generation is continuing to enjoy an active — if not always healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Our Way Out Of The Forest &#8211; Faith, Family And Fecundity</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/11/finding-our-way-out-of-the-forest-faith-family-and-fecundity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/11/finding-our-way-out-of-the-forest-faith-family-and-fecundity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a speech by Don Feder to the Moscow Demographic Summit, June 29, 2011 Imagine that you’re walking in the forest. There’s a layer of fresh snow on the ground. Suddenly you realize that you’re lost. You’re cold. You’re tired. You’re hungry. If that weren’t enough, there are wolves howling in the distance. This is beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOSCOW DEMOGRAPHIC SUMMIT ENDS WITH DEMAND FOR GOVERNMENTS TO ADOPT A “PRO-FAMILY DEMOGRAPHIC POLICY”</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/06/moscow-demographic-summit-ends-with-demand-for-governments-to-adopt-a-%e2%80%9cpro-family-demographic-policy%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/06/moscow-demographic-summit-ends-with-demand-for-governments-to-adopt-a-%e2%80%9cpro-family-demographic-policy%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The Moscow Demographic Summit: Family and The Future of Humankind” concluded with the adoption of a Declaration demanding that governments everywhere adopt pro-family demographic policies.  The Declaration was adopted by participants at the June 29-30 Summit held at the Russian State Social University, Russia’s largest university. Translated from Russian, The Declaration states in part: “We, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW YORK TIMES GETS IT WRONG – MOSCOW DEMOGRAPHIC SUMMIT IS ABOUT DECLINING BIRTHRATES</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/11/new-york-times-gets-it-wrong-%e2%80%93-moscow-demographic-summit-is-about-declining-birthrates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in today’s New York Times (“Russians Adopt U.S. tactics In Opposing Abortion”) mischaracterizes the upcoming Moscow Demographic Summit: The Family and The Future of Humankind – June 29-30 a the Russian State Social University – as “an international anti-abortion meeting.” World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs, who was mentioned in The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan’s Earthquake and the Politics of Demography</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/09/7314/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for the over -population groupies. by Marcus Roberts Back in 2009, the leadership in Japan realised that there it was facing a massive demographic problem. This problem was not rampant population growth, but the opposite – declining fertility and a growing elderly population. According to The Washington Post: “In 2009, just 13.3 percent [...]]]></description>
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