In my own lifetime, for example, there has been a shocking 60 percent decline, a datum dismayingly evident in neighborhoods once teeming with kids but now sadly vacant. Where have all the children gone?
Elsewhere, too, the statistics appear to be as bleak as any dystopian novel. In Japan, for instance, we are told that the numbers of those dying are twice the number of those being born. Something is surely wrong when more diapers are being sold for incontinent adults than for healthy infants. Will universal infertility be the future we never expected?
What to do about it?
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