pronatalism

American  

[proh-neyt-l-iz-uhm] / proʊˈneɪt lˌɪz əm /

noun

1. the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.

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Other Word Forms

• pronatalist noun
• pronatalistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of pronatalism

1935–40; pro- ¹ + natal (in a sense perhaps influenced by French natalité birthrate) + -ism

Example Sentences

Pronatalism has waxed and waned in influence.

From Slate

Despite pronatalism’s associations with ethnonationalist rhetoric and strange people in bonnets, the falling global birth rate is a real concern; the declining supply of young people threatens our long-term economic and social future.

From Slate

The conference brings together two strands in pronatalism that come from very different branches of the American right: both conservative Christians and members of the so-called 'tech right,' an ascendant wing that came out of the libertarian, start-up culture of Silicon Valley.

From BBC

He claims to have engaged in "backroom channelling of influential people, making sure that pronatalism became normal to talk about within the centres of power, and that ended up dripping its way up to administration and core tech culture".

From BBC

"There's a renewed interest in pronatalism and family promotion among American conservatives," says Timothy Carney, author of Family Unfriendly, How our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than it Needs to Be.

From BBC