Thursday July 8, 2010
Mexico’s Falling Birth Rate Threatens Future: Psychologist
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent
MEXICO CITY, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico’s falling birth rate is a threat to its future, according to María Alejandra Tallabs, an educational psychologist at Mexico’s Panamerican University.
“Mexico, I say, is approaching the reality of European countries like Spain, France, Italy, and England, where in their enthusiasm for reducing the demographic increase, they adopt public policies that put their own descendants at risk as a people,” said Tallabs in a statement sent to the press conjointly with the organizations Codigo Mujer and the Panamerican Association of Bioethics.
Tallabs is reportedly calling on the government and private sectors to begin a campaign in favor of the family in order to bring the birth rate up from its current level, which is barely above 2 children per family, to a replacement level above 2.1.
“We don’t help our children and young people by telling them only how they can avoid a pregnancy when they have sexual relations, reducing the responsibility to the use of the condom,” said Tallabs.
Pointing to the threat of the abortifacient “morning after pill,” and surgical abortion methods, Tallabs warns that the future of Mexico is at stake, and fears that it may face the same crisis faced by European countries that have reached birth rates of only 1.3 per children. “We’re headed there,” she said.
As a result of its low birth rate, Europe’s population is steadily aging and is facing labor shortages and increasing immigration pressures from the Arab world, where the birth rate is much higher.