The world's richest billionaire Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance have been propagating a belief called ' Natalism ' not only with their words but also their actions. What is it and can it really affect global birth rates ? Here's what you should know.
What is Pronatalism ?
Natalism is a policy paradigm that promotes reproduction as an important objective of humanity, therefore advocating a high birth rate. Thus, pronatalism is a movement that propagates childbearing as a response or rather solution to the global birth rate decline.
This movement is seeing the time of its life under the Trump administration where popular faces of the government are the frontrunners of the movement.
Why are Elon Musk and JD Vance supporting Pronatalism?
Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is popular for fathering almost 14 children with multiple women. In a statement, he shared that low birth rates are "a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming."
In April, American President Donald Trump shared that he'll be known as "the fertilization president" and as per the New York Times, his administration has already started policy proposals aimed at incentivizing people to have more kids.
Vice President JD Vance shared the administration's agenda in the March for Life rally saying, "Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America."
How can pronatalism affect birth rates?
"Pronatalism has sort of become the global warming of the right. It's a broad statistical issue that is going to lead to the collapse of our civilization. And, for whatever reason, the other side is unable to acknowledge it", said Malcolm Collins, a pronatalist who runs a podcast on the same with his wife, with whom he shares four children and is expecting a fifth, to USA Today.
According to a White House news release in May 2024, the birth rate in the United States has been on a steady decline since 2007. The global birth rates as well have been down since 1960. According to Sciubba, the reasons for this are complex. Firstly, people feel they can not afford to have families in the current economic conditions. Secondly, many couples are delaying marriage thus shortening their window to conceive naturally. Most common is the case that people now don't see children as a necessity to life.
This could affect not only birth rates but also institutions that rely on younger people offering aid to older ones such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. "It is a problem when, over time, you have lower birth rates. There are not enough workers to pay into the system to support growing numbers of older people", said Sciubba to USA Today.
Pronatalism in this condition seems like the right policy paradigm to propagate to those who want to have children or more of them. It will increase the birth rates thus increasing the younger population that takes part in services that provide to the older ones. It will also aid in the workforce of the country, which if younger is more bright and profitable in all fields.
In a country like America where the birth rates have been on a decline since 2024, pronatalism might just solve a lot of existing and coming problems.
What is Pronatalism ?
Natalism is a policy paradigm that promotes reproduction as an important objective of humanity, therefore advocating a high birth rate. Thus, pronatalism is a movement that propagates childbearing as a response or rather solution to the global birth rate decline.
This movement is seeing the time of its life under the Trump administration where popular faces of the government are the frontrunners of the movement.
Why are Elon Musk and JD Vance supporting Pronatalism?
Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is popular for fathering almost 14 children with multiple women. In a statement, he shared that low birth rates are "a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming."
In April, American President Donald Trump shared that he'll be known as "the fertilization president" and as per the New York Times, his administration has already started policy proposals aimed at incentivizing people to have more kids.
Vice President JD Vance shared the administration's agenda in the March for Life rally saying, "Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America."
How can pronatalism affect birth rates?
"Pronatalism has sort of become the global warming of the right. It's a broad statistical issue that is going to lead to the collapse of our civilization. And, for whatever reason, the other side is unable to acknowledge it", said Malcolm Collins, a pronatalist who runs a podcast on the same with his wife, with whom he shares four children and is expecting a fifth, to USA Today.
According to a White House news release in May 2024, the birth rate in the United States has been on a steady decline since 2007. The global birth rates as well have been down since 1960. According to Sciubba, the reasons for this are complex. Firstly, people feel they can not afford to have families in the current economic conditions. Secondly, many couples are delaying marriage thus shortening their window to conceive naturally. Most common is the case that people now don't see children as a necessity to life.
This could affect not only birth rates but also institutions that rely on younger people offering aid to older ones such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. "It is a problem when, over time, you have lower birth rates. There are not enough workers to pay into the system to support growing numbers of older people", said Sciubba to USA Today.
Pronatalism in this condition seems like the right policy paradigm to propagate to those who want to have children or more of them. It will increase the birth rates thus increasing the younger population that takes part in services that provide to the older ones. It will also aid in the workforce of the country, which if younger is more bright and profitable in all fields.
In a country like America where the birth rates have been on a decline since 2024, pronatalism might just solve a lot of existing and coming problems.
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