Pronatalism and Overpopulation | Challenging the Social Pressures to Procreate
Are our decisions about having children really made freely – without pressure from government, church, business, media, family and friends? The decision to have children or not is arguably one of the most important decisions we make in our lives. It’s largely regarded as an isolated personal decision and a natural rite of passage into adulthood. But how personal, really, is our decision to have a child?
This podcast episode features audio from the World Population Day webinar hosted by World Population Balance on 7 July, 2021: Pronatalism and Overpopulation: Challenging the Social Pressures to Procreate. You can also view the video of the webinar.
Panelists
Laura Carroll
Internationally recognized expert on the childfree choice
Author, The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds from Outmoded Thinking about Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World
Co-Author, Man Swarm: How Overpopulation is Killing the Wild World
Contributor, Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood?
Author, Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples without Children by Choice
Elisabeth Dimitras
Freelance researcher based in Greece for international anti-speciesist NGOs
Creator of educational online platform, Ethos & Empathy
Orna Donath
Israeli sociologist, lecturer, writer and feminist activist
Author, Regretting Motherhood
Teaches at Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo
Dr. Amrita Nandy
New Delhi-based researcher and writer whose work on gender, rights and culture has been published in national and international books, journals
Author, Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women