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Anomalies: Some Lessons From Large Families in a Small Family World

Governments that are serious about reversing the birth dearth might start by embracing the reverence for family, motherhood, and children.
Anomalies: Some Lessons From Large Families in a Small Family World
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Jeff Minick
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In the past 60 years, America has traveled from Baby Boom to Birth Dearth. As Catherine Ruth Pakaluk tells us in her recent book “Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth,” the United States and many other countries are well below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.