Go forth and multiply, Liberals... PLEASE!

[Lisa0825]

I hate to be a downer, but this article scares me! Not enough to volunteer be a single mom, but anyway... the rest of y'all liberals need to go make more babies to compete with the "conservative baby boom." Or maybe someone can debunk it for me? Either way, I'll feel better :evilgrin: And I'll babysit for you if you volunteer for the cause. LOL

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3376

The Return of Patriarchy

By Phillip Longman


March/April 2006

Across the globe, people are choosing to have fewer children or none at all. Governments are desperate to halt the trend, but their influence seems to stop at the bedroom door. Are some societies destined to become extinct? Hardly. It’s more likely that conservatives will inherit the Earth. Like it or not, a growing proportion of the next generation will be born into families who believe that father knows best.

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This dynamic helps explain, for example, the gradual drift of American culture away from secular individualism and toward religious fundamentalism. Among states that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, fertility rates are 12 percent higher than in states that voted for Sen. John Kerry. It may also help to explain the increasing popular resistance among rank-and-file Europeans to such crown jewels of secular liberalism as the European Union. It turns out that Europeans who are most likely to identify themselves as “world citizens” are also those least likely to have children.

Does this mean that today’s enlightened but slow-breeding societies face extinction? Probably not, but only because they face a dramatic, demographically driven transformation of their cultures. As has happened many times before in history, it is a transformation that occurs as secular and libertarian elements in society fail to reproduce, and as people adhering to more traditional, patriarchal values inherit society by default....