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HOW MEN SCREWED THE BIRTHRATE, by Poppy Sowerby (@poppy_sowerby)
When newly Reformed Danny Kruger bemoaned Britain’s ‘totally unregulated sexual economy’ for having such a dampening effect on our birth rates, Labour’s response was drippily predictable; they squealed about The Handmaid’s Tale and came running to the defence of damsels who were being ‘told what to do with their lives’.
But what had Kruger actually said that was so offensive? That Zoomer women’s wombs were factories for future taxpayers? That a Reform government would go full-Hungary, scrapping income tax for mothers of three or more? That they’d ban abortion?
Wrong! Kruger said: ‘I’m not interested in your love life… But I am interested in the framework in which you make your decisions, and I’d like the framework to be more pro-social.’ There were no plans to touch no-fault divorces, no handmaidens, no mothers’ medals after all. The biggest thing these anti-woman fascists wanted to do seemed to be to introduce household taxation. Labour’s faux-outrage, an opportunity for a tidy bit of political point-scoring, seemed for naught.
For Kruger is perfectly correct in his suggestion that young women’s choices, especially around fertility, are influenced by society’s messaging around motherhood. Research that may surprise those readers sold on the idea of Gen Z as cat ladies-in-waiting reveals that about 92% of young women want children one day. Whether they’ll have them is a different matter entirely.
The reason? Twentysomething men are too immature.
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