What has put the world in the path of an almost-inevitable population decline? Here are a few of the factors:

1. The sexual revolution, including The Pill and abortion. The mentality that says, "I'll decide how many children to have, not God" is the same mentality that kills 'inconvenient' children in the womb.

   Last year a music video out of Québec became the most-downloaded video in Canada-although it was in French (one version with English subtitles). The second stanza said:

   "Your great-great grandmother had 15 children;

   your great-grandmother had about the same.

   Your grandmother had three, that was enough;

   your mother didn't want any-you were an accident.

   And you, little lady, you go from boyfriend to boyfriend;

   and when you mess up, you get an abortion.

   And at night you dream of a big table, surrounded by children

   And you wake up crying."

2. Militant feminism's radical ideas of "equality" that told women they weren't worthwhile unless they were doing the kind of work men did-and government policies that, in response, drove women out of the home, and into the workforce. In Sweden, a cabinet minister called stay-at-home moms "parasites". Attitudes here weren't much different in the '60s and '70s.
3. Materialism: possessions came to be more important than children.
4. Non-marital cohabitation: such couples have fewer children, and the women and children are at much greater risk of physical and sexual abuse.
5. Late marriage: a family that marries in their 20s will have on average two children and four grandchildren by their late 40s; a couple that marries at 40 will usually have one, or at most two children. Math lesson: two is less than six.
6. Easy divorce: the uncertainty easy divorce injected into marriage has made couples less likely to have many children.
7. False assumptions: the "over-population" fraud perpetrated in the 1970s.
8. "Child-men" who remain teenagers into their 30s and beyond; they're obsessed with pleasure, but avoid responsibility.

There are 5 Communiqués in this series on Demographic Winter:

1. 'Demographic winter' is really coming… and it's a much bigger global threat!
2. How did the 'demographic winter' get started?
3. Specific causes of 'demographic winter'
4. Trends en route to 'demographic winter'
5. Can we avoid 'demographic winter'? Maybe