What Women Want

Babies are of the very most beautiful parts of life. They are so pure, so beautiful, so heavenly. Being united with my born children for the first time has been a singularly wonderful experience.

In a recent interview with Nicholas Eberstadt, I heard this observation from his Oct 2024 article on global depopulation.

Lant Pritchett discovered the most powerful national fertility predictor ever detected. That decisive factor turned out to be simple: what women want. ... There is an almost one-to-one correspondence around the world between national fertility levels and the number of babies women say they want to have. This finding underscored the central role of volition — of human agency — in fertility patterns.

More indicative than biological nature, economic situation or social circumstances. What we desire is important -- to ourselves, our families, our communities and nations, and to the souls that wait to be born.