EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pro-natalist policies are in favour of increasing the birth rate. Anti-natalist policies attempt to limit the birth rate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of this pro-natalist approach include tax advantages or better welfare benefits for women who have more than one child. Family-friendly employment conditions (eg flexible hours, job sharing or affordable child care) are also encouraged by many governments to help women to have more children.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anti-natalist policies aim to do the reverse: to encourage people to plan smaller families, lower fertility rates and reduce the number of births. These tend to be found in countries with high birth rates and rapidly growing populations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Natalism (or pronatalism) is a political ideology which promotes the reproduction of human life or, perhaps more aptly, sees women’s primary role as giving birth in order to boost a country’s native population.