Can Russia Outlaw Childlessness?
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Can Russia Outlaw Childlessness?
In April, President Trump, who has expressed concerns about the US’s low fertility rate, was asked about a proposal to provide a $5,000 “baby bonus” to every American woman who gives birth. His response: “Sounds like a good idea to me.” The average woman must give birth to 2.1 children to maintain a population, according to traditional assumptions. The US number is 1.6. Industrialized countries around the world are grappling with a similar probl…
In line with the national policy of the time, "Be fruitful and multiply," the Kumamoto Prefectural Medical Association submitted a proposal to the national government in 1941 for "national management of infertile women." In connection with the "Basic Survey of Human Resources" that had been carried out in the prefecture two years prior, the association recommended that women with constitutions that made it difficult to become pregnant be "specia…
In St. Petersburg, grandparents sometimes "don't take an early pregnancy" and discourage girls from giving birth between the ages of 18 and 20, and the head of the Peterburg Social Policy Committee, Elena Fidríkov, said that the authorities were working to change the minds of older persons.
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