6 d. ago London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate

London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate  The Guardian

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6 d. ago Maternity unit at Royal Free Hospital to close due to falling birth rate

Maternity unit at Royal Free Hospital to close due to falling birth rate  Evening Standard

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7 d. ago Maternity unit at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead to close due to declining birth rate

Number of births in the area hospital covers has fallen by 14 per cent in the area in the past five years

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8 d. ago Pregnant schoolgirls offered £1000 under Russia's 'absurd' birth rate scheme

Schoolgirls will be offered a cash sum of £1,000 if they fall pregnant under a new scheme being piloted in one region of Russia following Vladimir Putin's desperate plea for higher birth rates

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8 d. ago Pregnant schoolgirls will qualify for cash payment under 'crazy' scheme from Putin officials as they seek to boost birth rates

Schoolgirls who are more than 12 weeks pregnant will now qualify for the state payout under a scheme piloted in the Oryol region, which has seen a population slump of almost 8,000 people.

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1 week ago Inside Hungary's radical plan to boost its ailing birth rate with a VERY appealing benefit for stay

We found the Dani family with three boys living contentedly and without money worries next to a forest near the capital Budapest.

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1 week ago Education Secretary says London’s falling birth rate brings ‘opportunities to think creatively’

Bridget Phillipson also tells the Standard that Government will ‘look at the evidence’ from Sir Sadiq Khan’s free school meal programme

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2 w. ago Parents given childcare subsidies, free milk in bid to boost declining birth rate

The government is grappling with a shrinking population and record-low marriage rates

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3 w. ago Pronatalists are ascendant on the right. Can they agree on how to make Americans have more babies?

The movement unites ‘family values’ conservatives and tech bro rightwingers. Will this incoherent coalition hold?In his first address to the United States after becoming vice-president, JD Vance stood on stage and proclaimed: “I want more babies in the United States of America.” Weeks later, Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging support for in vitro fertilization, recognizing “the importance of family formation and that our nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children”.In late January, a Department of Transportation memo directed the agency to prioritize projects that “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”. And last week, it was reported that Elon Musk, the unelected head of the government-demolishing “department of governmental efficiency” and a man who has said that the “collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far”, had become a fat...

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3 w. ago The rise of pronatalism: why Musk, Vance and the right want women to have more babies

The movement unites ‘family values’ conservatives and tech bro rightwingers. Will this incoherent coalition hold?In his first address to the United States after becoming vice-president, JD Vance stood on stage and proclaimed: “I want more babies in the United States of America.” Weeks later, Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging support for in vitro fertilization, recognizing “the importance of family formation and that our nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children”.In late January, a Department of Transportation memo directed the agency to prioritize projects that “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”. And last week, it was reported that Elon Musk, the unelected head of the government-demolishing “department of governmental efficiency” and a man who has said that the “collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far”, had become a fat...

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