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Wanted: More White Babies

By Kathryn Joyce & VideoNation

This article appeared in the March 3, 2008 edition of The Nation.

February 18, 2008

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Christian conservatives are predicting a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe. But writer Kathryn Joyce, author of Missing: The Right Babies in this week's Nation Magazine, argues that the campaign to promote Europe's "Demographic Winter" is really a xenophobic effort to confront rising Muslim populations, and to export the U.S. culture wars to a new battlefield.

About Kathryn Joyce

Kathryn Joyce is the author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2009. more...
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