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Alpha females follow their instincts
Competitive birthing is a new fad |
biodiversivist |
25 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Economists explained to us long ago why fertility rates around the world have fallen. Characteristically, these explanations (part of the demographic transition theory) occurred after the fact. Also characteristically, they'll likely fail to predict future fertility trends. From NPR: The newest status symbol for the nation's most affluent families is fast becoming a big brood of kids. Historically, the country-club set has had the smallest number of kids. But in ... |
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| Topics: population, parenting (all these topics) |
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And baby makes ... 19
Yup, the Duggars do it again |
Sarah van Schagen |
03 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Remember the Duggar family? Well, they followed through on that promise of more children. |
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| Topics: green living, parenting, population (all these topics) |
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One's enough
Countering the pro-natal propaganda wave |
JMG |
22 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Lo and behold, once again doing what's best for the planet (rather than, say, advertisers or your in-laws) turns out to be also the best thing for your own happiness.From the story: For scientists studying the subject, simply correlating parenthood and happiness can't answer this question, since happy people might be more likely to have kids to begin with. But a recent study that compared happiness levels in adult identical twins -- some of whom are parents and some who aren' ... |
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| Topics: green living, parenting, population (all these topics) |
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Drowning Myself in the Gene Pool
When it comes to having kids, this global citizen can't bear it |
John Kurmann |
14 Dec 2005 |
Soapbox |
| This old earth has spun 'round the sun 40 times since my founding egg and sperm got cozy with each other, and yet I'm still a solo act: no wife, no family, no tribe. While a life partner and tribe can be left to happen whenever they happen -- if they happen -- I'm at the point where I think I need to either become a daddy, soon, or give up the idea once and for all. Hope f ... |
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| Topics: green living, parenting, population (all these topics) |
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Sweet sixteen
One family aiming to be half the population of Arkansas |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
13 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Speaking of overpopulation ... |
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| Topics: parenting, population (all these topics) |
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Surely You Gestate
On having kids, revisited |
Umbra Fisk |
21 Mar 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, What do you feel is the one issue of personal responsibility regarding the environment that people ignore the most? Vaughn Jackson, Tenn. Dearest Vaughn, Reproduction. But what can you do? As I said the other time I touched this topic with a 10-foot pole, we don't make childbearing choices based on politics. If we don't want kids, we bolster that decision by patting ourselves on our environmentally aware backs. I ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, parenting, population (all these topics) |
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Little Bundle of Consumption
On having kids |
Umbra Fisk |
12 Mar 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Wonderful Umbra, I truly love your column. You should give humor lessons to the rest of the Grist staff. My question concerns the environmental consequences of the decision to reproduce or not to reproduce. Your answer to Genevieve pointed out that the two biggest actions we can take to support a healthy environment relate to transportation and housing. Why do you not consider reproduction the biggest action we take that ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, parenting, population (all these topics) |
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Oh, Baby!
A review of Having Faith |
Jonna Higgins-Freese |
30 Jan 2002 |
Arts and Minds |
| I am an environmental activist, and for almost a year, my husband and I have struggled to understand how our environmental commitments bear on our decision about whether to have children. So when I picked up Sandra Steingraber's new book Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood,, I was immediately drawn in by the opening sentence: "Every woman who becomes pregnant brings to the experience her various identitie ... |
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| Topics: books, parenting, population, toxics (all these topics) |
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