http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=113 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:02:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-63386 Republican Children and the Fertility Gap - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Mon, 07 May 2007 05:55:02 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=113#comment-63386 [...] Last year there were stories on the fertility gap, warning that conservatives would outnumber liberals in the future since conservatives typically have more children than liberals. Despite the data supporting this data, I had little fear, feeling confident that humanity would move forward as historically “the overall trend has been for liberty to win out over tyranny and reason to be victorious over superstition.” [...] [...] Last year there were stories on the fertility gap, warning that conservatives would outnumber liberals in the future since conservatives typically have more children than liberals. Despite the data supporting this data, I had little fear, feeling confident that humanity would move forward as historically “the overall trend has been for liberty to win out over tyranny and reason to be victorious over superstition.” [...]

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-276 Donklephant » Blog Archive » Liberals Better Start Breeding… Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:44:26 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=113#comment-276 [...] Liberal Values points out another article about this phenomenon from Phillip Longman in this month’s issue of Foreign Policy. An excerpt: Tomorrow’s children, therefore, unlike members of the postwar baby boom generation, will be for the most part descendants of a comparatively narrow and culturally conservative segment of society. To be sure, some members of the rising generation may reject their parents’ values, as often happens. But when they look for fellow secularists with whom to make common cause, they will find that most of their would-be fellow travelers were quite literally never born. [...] [...] Liberal Values points out another article about this phenomenon from Phillip Longman in this month’s issue of Foreign Policy. An excerpt: Tomorrow’s children, therefore, unlike members of the postwar baby boom generation, will be for the most part descendants of a comparatively narrow and culturally conservative segment of society. To be sure, some members of the rising generation may reject their parents’ values, as often happens. But when they look for fellow secularists with whom to make common cause, they will find that most of their would-be fellow travelers were quite literally never born. [...]

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