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The West Doesn’t Want Children, It Wants Itself

January 24, 2012 By Owen Strachan 10 Comments

This from a punishing article by Mark Steyn: The developed world, like Elisabeth, is barren. Collectively barren, I hasten to add. Individually, it’s made up of millions of fertile women, who voluntarily opt for no children at all or one designer kid at 39. In Italy, the home of the Church, the birthrate’s somewhere around [...]

Filed Under: children, cultural engagement Tagged With: civilizational decline, cultural barrenness, ipad, Jesus Christ, mark steyn, starbucks 10 Comments

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