Family Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their…

— Jane Chen

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

— Max Born

“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still outpaced the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“On an average day, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an average, will…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can…

— Bill Gates

“880,000 babies could be saved simply by not removing them from their mothers, and by supporting early suckling.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

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

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay…

— Garrett Hardin

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth...

— Al Gore

“Overpopulation has a ceiling: earth’s total surface area divided by the dimensions of one economy seat. One more baby is born and hello cannibalism.”

— Walter Kirn

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if…

— Donella Meadows