By Alexander Perepechko

Published on August 8, 2015

In my previous research essay I demonstrated that during Late Modernity low death rates, very low birth rates, and slow population decrease in the western countries are irreversible. One result is small families. Parents with one or two children are not willing to send their son or daughter into a potential combat situation. Western ruling elites are able to overcome this attitude only sometimes and in part. Moreover, there is a breakdown in family structure. In fact, the western family as we know it is dying as an institution. The Christian family is losing its central role in the reproduction of the population. The share of families with one parent and the share of nontraditional families quickly increase (figure 8).

These days, many leftist, neoliberal, and postmodernist leaders and activist networks, who gravitate primarily toward the Democratic Party, are working on antinatalist policies and revision of the traditional family. At the same time, these politicians and campaigners are not creating any new basic social units that could at least partially compensate for decreased population reproductive capacities of the decaying traditional family. Do these politicians, activists, and their sponsors rely on new migrants from different civilizations as the core of military and security services?
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