“Babies are life, babies are adventure, babies are the future, babies are brothers and sisters for other babies.” — Greg Sheridan, The Australian, November 21, 2023
Like many good conservatives, The Australian’s foreign editor loves babies and is distressed that Australians are having fewer of them. In his column last week titled “We need babies more than we do migrants”, Greg Sheridan fretted about Australia’s fertility rate in which the number of babies per woman has been dwindling since the mid-1970s when procreation became less of an inevitability and the rate of education for women and girls accelerated.
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