In rural societies, large families are almost always the…

“Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for…

— Jane B. Reece

Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put…

— Jonathan V. Last

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

— Christopher Wills

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

— Nicholas Kristof

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

In 2018, according to the Children's Cooperative Book Center at the University of Wisconsin's School of Education, fewer than a third of all children's…

— Meena Harris

Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Today there's a new report out about how population growth is going down in the United States. Immigrant women are having fewer children. It…

— Barbara Crossette

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful…

— Jonathan Haidt

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to…

— William P. Young

The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were…

— David Attenborough

We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will…

— Helene D. Gayle

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

— Hans Rosling