Baby Race: Are Low National Birthrates a Blessing or a Curse?

Book info: Baby Race: Are Low National Birthrates a Blessing or a Curse? (Paperback, 442 pages) – Hidden Road Publishing, 2024. Language: English.

Are low national birthrates a blessing or a curse? Today, high-income nations are in a race for survival. It is a Baby Race. Many believe that a higher national birthrate will cause greater prosperity and national power. They also believe that low fertility is a curse and causes economic decline and social chaos. This view is without merit or substance. This book is a comprehensive response to the fake news of low fertility in high-income nations. Low fertility is not a problem. It is a blessing. The curse is in adopting a faulty and flawed vision of social and economic change. Those who want to go back to the past are called ‘restorationists,’ and they don’t like our world. They prefer the good old days.This book examines key thinkers for the last five hundred years, such as Marx, Adam Smith, the Rev. Thomas Malthus, the mercantilists, Darwin, and Keynes. Their ideas continue to shape the character, contests and conflicts of demographic change in our world today. Some of their ideas led to the first Baby Race in the 1920s and 1930s, such as eugenics and racism, which led to war and the Holocaust, while others shaped public policy in the postwar era.This book is also a comprehensive and detailed analysis of East Asian demographic history from the end of the Second World war until today. This includes the response to the so-called population bomb of the 1960s and 1970s in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and China, including an analysis of the One Child Policy. The book also contains a detailed survey of demographic restorationism across high-income nations from Europe to Asia.Dr Sutton presents an alternative to the popular narrative that women need to go home and bear babies for the nation. Our future does not lie in a reimagined past, but we are facing a very real struggle for the future of an open society. We need a national vision where all are welcome, one where our nation moves forward, not backwards. Low fertility is prosperity. High fertility is poverty. That’s the real world and it is a blessing.