Do subsidized marriage & reproduction work? What happened to “earth is overpopulated?”
Elizabeth Nolan Brown is Senior Editor at Reason Magazine, a libertarian magazine that promises to exist outside the left/right echo chamber. Her biweekly Sex & Tech newsletter covers issues surrounding sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law & online culture.
In this episode, you’ll hear about global government efforts to get more babies, why families might be getting smaller, why people used to have lots of kids, current-day efforts that sound fake and what actually might work to get families to have more children.
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01:14 From overpopulation panic to birth rate bust
06:00 Pronatalist policies of the past: Russia, Hungary, Romania
09:24 Can money make anyone want a baby?
11:53 South Korea, the 4B movement & gender equality
14:01 Why families are getting smaller
15:19 Why the right cares more (and the teen birth drop)
20:16 Status symbols, child mortality & sex ed
21:41 The Great Recession & the smartphone theory
24:21 Should government even be doing this?
26:13 Is it rage bait or is it real?
28:00 Why marriage? The selection effect
31:27 The soulmate myth & who marriage is "for"
33:16 Does capitalism need marriage?
34:48 Social media, gender wars & the Handmaid's Tale
37:00 What's actually working?
38:32 France's fall from pronatalist poster child
39:37 So... is it a big deal?
40:39 Fertility tech & the older-mom contradiction
42:45 Government, get out of the way
47:30 Where to find Elizabeth
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