by Carolyn Moynihan
How good are your children at relating to their grandparents? How would they respond if granny developed Alzheimer’s? These questions beg an even bigger one: how will societies with an average of 2 or less children per woman cope with a burgeoning elderly population and a growing worldwide epidemic of dementia? South Korea has come up with answers in a remarkable campaign. Read more…
Interesting to see another perspective on this issue since it has been hotly debated on this blog. More food for thought:
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow
According to newly released government statistics, the U.S. birth rate has dropped below replacement level.
The fact that the birth rate is falling comes as no surprise to Colin Mason, director of media production at the Population Research Institute (PRI), who explains that “our birth rate’s actually been dropping for a while.” Read more…
Carolyn Moynihan, Mercatornet.com
Struggling with family decay and population decline, Russia wants the UN to get down to tin tacks on the subject of human rights.
Let’s face it: there is a lot wrong with Russia. Twenty years after the fall of communism the man who gave the Soviet system the coup de grace, Mikhail Gorbachev, is complaining that there is no democracy in the country and that the Kremlin is not interested in fighting corruption or solving the murders of prominent critics such as journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Read more…
Categories: Babies, Children, Demography, Divorce, family, Population, Under-population Tags: demographics, family, population decline, Russia, Under-population
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