pronatalism

[proh-neyt-l-iz-uhm]

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• pronatalist noun
• pronatalistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pronatalism¹

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

Example Sentences

Pronatalism has waxed and waned in influence.

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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.

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They have become the poster children for pronatalism, a movement that believes falling birth rates are a big problem for society.

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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.

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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".

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