Happy Mother's Day from PRI

By PRI Staff

For all mothers who know the feeling of the first embrace after birth…Who know the joy of helping their babies take their first steps…Or know what it’s like to wipe away their every tear…For mothers who let go on the first day of school…Or who know what it feels like at the end of a long day’s work of providing or caring for their family…Or for women who have struggled with infertility or the loss of one of their own…

We at the Population Research Institute want to say thank you to all women who have embraced the gift of motherhood. Mothers make the family a place where love and compassion resides. They give life to us all and for that reason all mothers have the right to be honored, respected, and cherished.

Sadly, in many parts of the world, even to this day, mothers are deprived of this right. That’s why we at PRI continue to fight China’s planned birth policies, which deny mothers their right to bear more than two children. That is why we will continue to speak out about coercive and forced abortion and sterilization wherever it occurs. That is why we have provided solutions for mothers in the Caribbean in crisis pregnancies with our recently opened Family Care Center in St. Lucia, which provides essential medical and emotional support for expectant mothers.

Nothing can replace joys of motherhood—all of the joys—from feeling the very first movements, to bringing a unique and brand new soul into the world through childbirth, to a child’s first smile, first word, first toddler-sized hug! These are joys that all women should have the right to experience, and as many times as they choose.

All of us here at PRI wish you a

Blessed and Happy Mother’s Day

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Immigrants Flood Into Europe

Will they cure Europe’s demographic sickness or just temporarily alleviate the pain?

by Alejandro Macarron
Population Research Institute
“It doesn't matter if we Spaniards do not have enough children, as long as foreign migrants come to Spain and have kids here,” the head of a major conservative Spanish think tank said to me a couple of years ago. I had suggested to him that the center-right Partido Popular—now the governing party in Spain—promote pro-natal policies.

But can immigration really make up for Spain’s growing birth deficit? Since 2011, when we had our conversation, both Spaniards and migrants have had fewer children each year. In part because of the ongoing economic recession, there were 10% fewer children born in 2013 than in 2011. Moreover, more people migrated out of Spain than migrated into it during this period. The net migration flow was negative, not positive.

Tylenol is great for relieving the pain of a headache, but it won’t cure a brain tumor. In fact, by masking the pain, it might stop us from finding out that we have a tumor and seek treatment for it. It might, in this way, actually kill us.

Many Europeans view immigration the way that people with a headache view Tylenol. The immigrants flooding into Europe mask the pain of the aging native population with its huge baby deficit. It disguises the ugly core demographic numbers, and gives politicians and the public an excuse to avoid taking the real steps necessary to avoid committing demographic suicide.

Europe and Japan are the frontrunners in this race to oblivion. Both have populations that are dramatically shrinking and aging. Low birth rates and increased life expectancy are both responsible, but what the demographers call “lowest low fertility” accounts for the bulk of the problem.

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