Word: pronatalist
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...though this perhaps goes without saying - not an unpleasant one, either. In Germany, Spain and Italy pronatalist policies were associated with fascism. Not in France, where the state has favored childbearing by putting an infrastructure in place that encourages women to work and have babies: municipal child-care facilities, liberal family allowances that rise with each subsequent child, and a nonjudgmental attitude about having babies out of wedlock. France banned the term illegitimate from its administrative lexicon in 2005, and last year's baby boom came amid a continuing drop in marriage rates. Almost half of 2006 babies were born...
...conservatives have begun to point to the birth-dearth phenomenon in their arguments for "pronatalist" social policies, including better day care, maternity leave and a tax exemption of up to $5,000 for every child in a family. Republican Presidential Contenders Pat Robertson and Jack Kemp have taken up the subject in their speeches. Says Kemp: "Children are not just mouths to feed. They're our future, our precious resource." Just as the baby busters have started reaching voting age, they may find that their smaller numbers have become an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign...
...urge the issuance of "licenses to procreate" or even mandatory abortions after a second child-extremes that rightly shock believers in freedom to procreate. So far, demographers point out, the U.S. Government, through its income tax structure and in other ways, like home loans, has been mildly "pronatalist," that is, supportive of child bearing. Nonetheless, the U.S. birth rate continues to fall. What are the reasons for the decline...
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