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A chat about babies and birthrates. In our final episode on the 4B movement, Natalie and Elle unpack the many reasons why women across the world are opting out of procreating. It is being proclaimed that the human birthrate is in free fall and that we are in a ‘plummeting population crisis’ - but is the birthrate panic warranted? We look at the environmental, economic, political, evolutionary and social theories as to why the human boom may be slowing down.
In this jam-packed episode, we also take a critical look at the contradictory messages women receive about our role as creators of new life, and discuss examples of ill-fated government interventions into women’s bodily autonomy - including China, Germany, Romania and the US. We try to wrap our minds around the pronatalism movement and the recent Trump Administration’s incentives for promoting motherhood, and present our own list of incentives that would actually be meaningful to women. We cover the boom-bust theory, evolutionary mate selection theories, DINKS and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
Martha Ahumuza | X
Dr. Jennifer Glass | Paula Ferris Show
DINKS | Nordy on TikTok
DINKS Social
The Elephant In The Womb | Grant Wyeth
Declining birth rate
Boom and Bust Cycle
Climate Apocalypse | Instagram
Jen Unhinged Selective Gatekeepers | TikTok
Jen Unhinged 4 Things | TikTok
The Cost of Sexism by Linda Scott
Natal Conference
CONTACT US
Website: www.chatinthecommons.com
Instagram: @chatinthecommons
X: @ChatInCommons
Email: https://www.chatinthecommons.com/contact
By Elle Kamihira & Natalie Blundell5
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A chat about babies and birthrates. In our final episode on the 4B movement, Natalie and Elle unpack the many reasons why women across the world are opting out of procreating. It is being proclaimed that the human birthrate is in free fall and that we are in a ‘plummeting population crisis’ - but is the birthrate panic warranted? We look at the environmental, economic, political, evolutionary and social theories as to why the human boom may be slowing down.
In this jam-packed episode, we also take a critical look at the contradictory messages women receive about our role as creators of new life, and discuss examples of ill-fated government interventions into women’s bodily autonomy - including China, Germany, Romania and the US. We try to wrap our minds around the pronatalism movement and the recent Trump Administration’s incentives for promoting motherhood, and present our own list of incentives that would actually be meaningful to women. We cover the boom-bust theory, evolutionary mate selection theories, DINKS and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
Martha Ahumuza | X
Dr. Jennifer Glass | Paula Ferris Show
DINKS | Nordy on TikTok
DINKS Social
The Elephant In The Womb | Grant Wyeth
Declining birth rate
Boom and Bust Cycle
Climate Apocalypse | Instagram
Jen Unhinged Selective Gatekeepers | TikTok
Jen Unhinged 4 Things | TikTok
The Cost of Sexism by Linda Scott
Natal Conference
CONTACT US
Website: www.chatinthecommons.com
Instagram: @chatinthecommons
X: @ChatInCommons
Email: https://www.chatinthecommons.com/contact

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