Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind
With global birth rates in free fall, Silicon Valley's ‘pronatalists' are aiming to halt the decline – by having as many babies as possible
Babu, who hopes to join how to marry a Komsomolsk-on-Amur women or create a pronatalist organisation in the UK, says it is still ‘niche' here but gaining ground on both the ‘swashbuckling intellectual Right' and the more family-focused and Blue-Labour-tinged segments of the Left
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At the beginning of March, Aria Babu quit her job at a think tank to dedicate herself to something most people have never heard of.
‘It became clear to me that people wanted more children than they were having,' Babu says. ‘Considering this is such a massive part of people's lives, the fact that they were not able to fulfil this want was clearly indicative that something was wrong.'
The new focus of Babu's career is a philosophy known as pronatalism, literally meaning pro-birth. Its core tenet is deceptively simple: our future depends on having enough children, and yet life in developed countries has become hostile to this basic biological imperative.