family values: This has been a dramatic, and largely unnoticed, change, according to Globe and Mail. Today, the most feminist countries, the ones that do the most to get women out of the home and into the economy, are the ones with the healthiest fertility rates. The way to have more and better families today is to get far away from family values. The new relationship between women employment and fertility is how François Héran, a professor with the National Institute of Demographic Studies in France, describes his latest research, which he recently presented in Ottawa. In 1980, the countries with the fewest women in the work force and the least birth control were generally the ones with the highest fertility – Greece, Spain and Portugal, for example, all had less than 50 per cent of women working, and had the highest fertility rates in Europe. A generation ago, it was taken as fact that getting women into the work force – and letting them control their reproductive choices – meant having smaller families and fewer babies.
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