race suicide

American  

noun

1. the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.

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Etymology

Origin of race suicide

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

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race suicide

The excess of births over deaths was 94,000 Thus is courage given to opponents of race suicide in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prominent objectors to birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known.

From Time Magazine Archive

The man generally credited with having invented the phrase "race suicide."

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for Alice, whose daughter Paulina is now 6, each of the Roosevelt children has obeyed his father's command for large families to combat "race suicide."

From Time Magazine Archive

For all the religions preach that race suicide is a sin, all the statesmen point out that only decadent nations restrict families, and all or nearly all the press thunder against it.

From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson