In a conversation at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) with Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage argued that a return to “Judeo-Christian” values and “optimism” are needed to confront plunging birth rates.
Birth rates have been plummeting across the Western world, and the UK is no exception. According to official figures, the British fertility rate fell to just 1.44 children per woman in 2023, well below the replacement level of 2.1 and the lowest recorded since the government started tracking the statistics in 1938.
Dr Peterson asserted that while there will always be deviations from the norm, society should orient itself towards the “stable committed heterosexual child-centred monogamy” if it hopes to produce an environment conducive to increased birth
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