Monthly Archives: August 2010

Paying Couples to Wait on Parenting

A few days after reading an article on the cultural push for women to have children in India I came across an article that was practically the opposite.  The article was about a government program set up to reduce population growth in India by providing financial incentives to young couples to hold off on starting […]

Fertilization in India

I read an article this week about women in India placing such a high value on motherhood and having babies and how large families are still the norm in that country.  There’s no push for population control and in fact, the opposite seems to be true.  Fertility clinics are booming.  The article featured a 72 […]

Voluntary Human Extinction and Mass Fertility

My friend sent me the link to a fascinating website for a group called The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEM). What an amazing concept for us childfree adults to embrace the idea that we are contributing to a movement to save the earth. Imagine what would happen if more adults were willing to say, “I’ll […]