Years had passed since the release of Saturday's Warrior, but at BYU her pronatalist message was alive and well.
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She debunks multiple misconceptions driving pronatalist attitudes, like the "biological clock" and the assumption that having children is the greatest source of human meaning and fulfillment.
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A population-planning document released last year acknowledged that the low birth rate was problematic and referred to a vague package of pronatalist measures that it would consider in response.
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Yet the lacklustre performance of pronatalist policies elsewhere in the world suggests that it would take vast investments to raise fertility, and that making child care cheaper should be a priority.
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One, which he calls "preference adjustment," is really about storytelling — using mass media, from television to billboards to television ads, to push back against the pronatalist messaging that everyone should have kids.
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As we know, many major world religions—Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism—are pronatalist, requiring adherents to have children (traditional Judaism insists on a minimum of at least two, a boy and a girl).
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"We can't have this conversation," Hickey said, "unless we realize that we currently live in a deeply, profoundly pronatalist society" — one that is patrolled and enforced by everything from the tax code to the mass media.
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Despite the recent findings that having kids might be harmful to your self-esteem, it's pretty safe to say that American culture is "pronatalist": As soon as you graduate college, start a career, and marry somebody, the next level of the video game called life is parenthood.
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The French pronatalist movement from 1919–1945 failed to convince French couples they had a patriotic duty to help increase their country's birthrate. Even the government was reluctant in its support to the movement. It was only between 1938 and 1939 that the French government became directly and permanently involved in the pronatalist effort. Although the birthrate started to surge in late 1941, the trend was not sustained.
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Throughout his career Pernot was a vocal pronatalist, pushing for government policies that would support the family and encourage higher birth rates to counter the demographic crisis in France. He believed that women should be encouraged to remain at home to raise children.
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France and Austria experienced the strongest baby booms in Europe. In contrast to most other countries, the French and Austrian baby booms were driven primarily by an increase in marital fertility. In the French case, pronatalist policies were an important factor in this increase. Weaker baby booms occurred in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Henriette Guizot de Witt was the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot"Henriette and Pauline Guizot" and the wife of Conrad de Witt. She was the sister of Guillaume Guizot. Her younger sister Pauline married Cornélis Henri de Witt, Conrad de Witt's brother. One of Henriette's daughters was the pronatalist and feminist activist Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger.
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After being in a lull of low birth rates, France experienced a baby boom after 1945. The sense that the population was too small, especially in regard to the more powerful Germany, was a common theme in the early 20th century. Pronatalist policies were proposed in the 1930s and implemented in the 1940s. In addition, there was steady immigration, especially from former French colonies in North Africa.
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It is reported more frequently in countries that place heavy emphasis on fertility and childbearing; such pronatalist beliefs are often highly prominent in developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman is allowed to share her husband's property only if she bears children. In these countries (and other developing nations), infertile women often experience abuse, blame, and discrimination. In Africa, it is reported to occur in 1 out of every 344 pregnancies.
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No matter marital, social, or maternal standing, she believed that women had the right to enjoy self-fulfillment in their life. Due to her involvement with supporting birth control, he growing population of the French right-wing pronatalist movement blamed her and others for the declining birth rates in France. They saw her as a traitor and corrupt because of her beliefs in contraception. She was also against how society allowed women to suffer in private and made women stay silent about the pain during childbirth.
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As soon as France was liberated Pernot began a propaganda drive to address the demographic crisis in France through stronger policies to encourage families. In July 1945 he launched the pronatalist journal Pour la vie (For Life). The first issues of Pour la vie tried to show that pronatalism had arisen in the pre-war period, and that it should be recognized for the Code de la Famille rather than for its collaboration with the Vichy Regime. Pernot was elected to the Council of the Republic in 1946.
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1943 wartime German stamp showing a mother with her offspring. The ideal number of children per family according to the RDF was not less than four Reichsbund der Kinderreichen (RDK) or (RdK), Reich's Union of Large Families or, literally: "Reich's League of those wealthy in children", was one of the most important pronatalist groups founded in Germany after World War I. To qualify as a member of this league a family should have at least four children. Widows were also admitted. The German Large Family League was forcefully nazified after the Nazi takeover of power in 1933.
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India carries a pronatalist attitude towards fertility, with the large family structure creating an environment for new children to learn and grow in Indian culture. In many parts of India, male children are favored over female children, however efforts are being taken to change this attitude. Males are raised to be assertive and independent figures, while females are raised to put others before themselves, particularly their family. Families tend to encourage childbearing and expect to provide an environment of support for any new members of the family, raising the children based on Indian family practices and beliefs.
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A bachelor tax was levied in Italy from 1927 until the fall of Mussolini in 1943. In a speech given by Benito Mussolini on May 26, 1927, the tax is referenced to have garnered 40 to 50 million lira, but that the purpose of the tax was a race-based pronatalist policy: : Let us be quite clear: what are 40 million Italians compared to 90 million Germans and 200 million Slavs? What are 40 million Italians compared to 40 million Frenchmen, plus 90 million inhabitants of their colonies, or 46 million Englishmen plus 450 million people who live in their colonies? J. Pollard, The Fascist Experience in Italy, London, 1998, pp. 78-9.
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The situation was also due in part to a revived pronatalist approach to childbearing adopted at times by the government, which looked unfavourably on abortion. The result was a reliance on abortion as the primary method of family planning. Concerned with the high rate of illegal abortions, in 1982 the government issued a decree allowing abortions for health reasons to be performed through the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy. The government continued to extend the circumstances under which legal abortions were available, and on 31 December 1987 it issued another decree setting out a broad range of non-medical indications for abortions performed on request through the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy.
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