This decline is coming because, on average, women are having fewer babies. The decades-long drop in fertility is precipitated by many factors including China’s forced one-child policy which has significantly impacted global population.
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This fall, NC State University lost four students to suicide. Other colleges, such as Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, and the University of North Carolina, have reported student suicides on the rise. The epidemic in suicide attempts by young people is more than concerning—it is frightening. For college-aged students in particular, there has been a sharp increase in suicidal ideation. In fact, suicide is the second-leading cause of death for college students.
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GQ magazine held its 25th “Men of the Year” event in London last Wednesday. Talents from across the fields of culture, sports, and entertainment gathered for the glitzy gala celebrating the British men’s style magazine’s honorees for Men of the Year. Curiously, over a third of the personalities on that list were women.
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Malta, the last remaining pro-life country in the European Union, is moving to relax its laws protecting preborn children from abortion. Lawmakers are looking to allow abortions to be committed when a woman’s life or health are at risk, even though the intentional killing of a preborn human being (induced abortion) is not medically necessary, and lifesaving and human dignity-affirming alternatives are available.
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In the UN social policy committee this week, traditional countries blocked an effort to undermine parents’ ability to monitor and restrict children’s access to information about homosexuality, transgender issues, and abortion.
Mexico was forced to remove any mention of a report of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from a resolution on bullying. Delegations from traditional countries complained that the report promoted a right of children to access information about sexuality, including homosexuality and transgender issues, without parental consent.