Is it getting cold in here?

Still think the globe is overpopulated? Think again. With fertility rates tumbling below replacement, a new documentary discusses the coming demographic winter.

June 7, 2008 | by Tyler Chamberlain , Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

Endnotes

  1. National fertility and unemployment rates can be found on the Statistics Canada website: http://cansim2.statcan.ca/
  2. Joyce, K. (2008, March 3). Missing: The “Right” Babies. The Nation. Retrieved online: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/joyce
  3. Ian Dowbiggin. (2008). Where Have All the Babies Gone?: The Sterilization Movement in the Cold War Era. Oxford University Press.
  4. Ian Dowbiggin. (2006). Where Have All the Babies Gone?: The “Birth Dearth” and what to do about it. Presented on September 26, 2006 at the IMFC Family Policy Conference. Retrieved online: http://imfcanada.php-dev.domain7.com/sites/default/files/Dr_Ian_Dowbiggin_Birth_Dearth_FINAL.pdf