• Pronatalism

    Origin

    From - + pro + - + ism.

    Full definition of pronatalism

    Noun

    pronatalism

    (usually uncountable; plural pronatalisms)
    1. An attitude or ideology promoting child-bearing; advocacy of having children, especially from the State. from 20th c.
      • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 616:In France the emphasis fell on pronatalism; after the crushing defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 and with the French population being outstripped by the German, health propaganda encouraged large families.

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