The Northampton Seminar
[Demographer Nicholas Eberstadt has written recently of the declining birth rate all over the Muslim world. Here is an explanation for one part of it.]
Like many young couples, Sherag, an architect, and Bita, a recent college graduate, cited a litany of problems as reasons for their dark outlook: an intrusive state and its conservative ideology, a sickly economy, political instability.
“When we go to bed we don’t even know what will happen when we wake up,” he said.
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