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Conservative Baby Boom, Liberal Baby Bust
In a trend that’s found worldwide as well as in the U.S.: Liberals are much less likely to have children than conservatives. That trend "augers a far more conservative future — one in which patriarchy and other traditional values make a comeback, if only by default,” Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation, writes in an essay in USA Today. "Childlessness and small families are increasingly the norm today among progressive secularists. As a consequence, an increasing share of all children born into the world are descended from a share of the population whose conservative values have led them to raise large families.” Conservatives, most of whom are pro-life, are also less likely to have abortions than are their politically liberal counterparts. Liberals, in essence, may be killing their own future through abortion. Longman points to these figures:
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Longman also points out that nearly 20 percent of American women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having children.
Therefore, "the greatly expanded childless segment of contemporary society, whose members are drawn disproportionately from the feminist and countercultural movements of the 1960s and '70s, will leave no genetic legacy,” writes Longman, author of "The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It.” He concludes that tomorrow's children "will be for the most part descendants of a comparatively narrow and culturally conservative segment of society.” The USA Today essay was adapted from a story in Foreign Policy magazine.
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