Mar 20, 2018 | News & Updates
In the wake of its bankruptcy announcement, Toys R Us is giving out free family planning advice: Americans, and millennials in particular, are not having enough kids. Forget the fact that having large families is the worst way for the average person to exacerbate...
Mar 3, 2018 | News & Updates
Leta Hong Fincher’s New York Times piece on China’s family planning regime raises many questions: We decry population growth policies as violating women’s rights and autonomy. Should we also look beyond parents, to future children, and consider their rights to a world...
Feb 23, 2018 | News & Updates
Unilever, a corporation with a roughly $9 billion dollar annual marketing budget, is threatening to pull its advertising from platforms like Google and Facebook if they don’t censor and remove more of the content posted by users. We appreciate the move to...
Feb 19, 2018 | News & Updates
Maggie Astor’s article on the thoughtful and caring people forgoing having kids because of climate change raises compelling questions. Should climate change (that even the Pentagon acknowledges) be a reason for the people most concerned about the future stop having...
Nov 17, 2017 | News & Updates
The Atlantic has for some time published a thoughtful series of articles analyzing the reasons people decide to have children. It’s unfair to generalize about such a large body of work, but at Having Kids we think there is a sometimes express and usually implied...