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Graduate and childless. (Society).
THERE IS NOTHING much to worry about in declining fertility, according to Russell Blackford ("Is Declining Fertility a Problem?", Quadrant, March 2003) and P.P. McGuinness ("Fertility Decline and Population Panic", September 2002). The planet has plenty of people, and will have long after zero population growth is reached around 2050. And if people choose to have no or few children, there is no good reason why other people should regret it or encourage them to get on with achieving their quota. If it does turn out that the Baby Boomers have to work in their seventies because they have not bred enough young people to keep them in luxury, well, the inconvenience will fit ...
- Declining fertility and policy intervention in Europe: some lessons for...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Population Research Hugo, Graeme November 1, 2000 700+ words
...comparison with European nations. Most European nations have lower fertility than Australia and concern about declining fertility and lowered population growth is a long-standing and important topic which is widely discussed and the object...
- A sexual time bomb: the declining fertility rate of the black middle class.
- Magazine article from: Ebony Burns, Monique May 1, 1995 700+ words
WHEN it comes to making babies, nobody does it better than Black folks. In fact, 19 percent of all Black teenagers, aged 15-19, become pregnant each year, compared with only 8 percent of White teens. Because Black teens are giving up educational opportunities and careers to bear babies at an age
- RUSSIA: HEALTH MINISTRY NOTES DECLINING FERTILITY, RISING MORTALITY IN...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database November 4, 2001 700+ words
Health Ministry officials in Grozny told Interfax on 1 November that the birthrate has declined by 67 percent and the death rate doubled in Chechnya in recent times. The officials placed the blame on "the worsening of the ecological situation and the constant stress situations of people" there, in
- The European Experience of Declining Fertility: A Quiet Revolution, 1850-1970.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Lehning, James R. March 22, 1994 700+ words
I Taken together, this collection of essays provides the most innovative attempt thus far to explain the decline of fertility in Europe. The Introduction lays out an ambitious project: in contrast to the normal emphasis on socioeconomic factors in studies of the fertility transition, these authors
- Solving the looming labor crisis: a growing number of retirees, declining...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Challenger, John A. July 1, 2003 700+ words
THE LABOR SHORTAGES of the late 1990s seem so distant now, particularly for the thousands of laidoff technology workers, many of whom went for a year or more without a job. Some, in fact, still are jobless. The dot.com bust, recession, and rise in unemployment that followed seemed to have erased
- Mother nature's solution? (several studies of birds, fish, predators and people...
- Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder October 1, 1995 700+ words
Scientists all around the world are noticing events that may be linked. A zoologist with the World Wildlife Fund studied 16 predator species in the Great Lakes in the late 1980s. Theodora Colborn found the young of all the species were not living to adulthood or failing to reproduce themselves if
- Booz & Company and Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates Form Exclusive Alliance to...
- Newspaper article from: Science Letter June 16, 2009 700+ words
...announced an exclusive alliance with Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates LLC, the consulting arm...Booz & Company and Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates are joining forces to help...build essential advantage." Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President, Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates...
- Backlash Babies.(Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book, Creating a Life: Professional Women...
- Magazine article from: The Nation POLLITT, KATHA May 13, 2002 700+ words
...learn Italian" and "exercise." Change the sexes, though, and the same story gets a different slant. According to Sylvia Ann Hewlett, today's 50-something women professionals are in deep mourning because, as the old cartoon had it, they forgot to have...
Source: HighBeam Research, Graduate and childless. (Society).