Marriage, Contraception & The Future of Western Peoples

Marriage, Contraception & the Future of Western Peoples

By Henry Potrykus and Patrick Fagan November 30, 2011

The peoples of the West are self-depleting because of the adoption of extra-marital sexual norms coupled with a rejection of fertility: Negative trends in the openness to marriage and the openness to children drive an exponential decrease in the generations to come in Europe.
A projected further decline in family size is a direct translation of declining trends of fertility and declining desires and expectations for having children, both individually among the present fertile generation and intergenerationally.
The contraceptive mindset (x-axis, fewer children) is of one cloth with the West shifting its economic orientation from family enterprise to individualist labor activity while simultaneously moving from religious to secular social values.
Remediation lies in a re-adoption of stable marriage as a societal norm and the rejection by governments and peoples of this non-sustainable model of society–areligious, sexually polymorphous, serial polygamy–and its replacement by a less secular, more traditional, family-oriented life.

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