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Where have all the children gone?(REVIEW)(Fewer)(The Empty Cradle)(Book Review)

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| March 22, 2005 | Cohen, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2005 The National Affairs, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

PROGRESSIVES have long worried that world population is rising too much and too fast, and that poor nations will never modernize if they continue to procreate without limits. But in reality, concerns about overpopulation are wholly misplaced, and the real danger ahead may result from "depopulation": a world of fewer babies, aging populations, and pension systems in crisis.

To sort out the consequences of the "new demography," we have the benefit of two valuable new books: Fewer [dagger] by American Enterprise Institute scholar Ben J. Wattenberg, and The Empty Cradle [double dagger] by New America Foundation fellow Phillip Longman. Both books cover similar ...

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