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Ending Daughter Elimination in the Developing World

This article originally appeared in the Washington Examiner.  It is reprinted with permission and does not fall under PRI’s Creative Commons 3.0 license.   For most parents, daughters are a blessing. But in many parts of south and east Asia, where there exists a strong, culturally-rooted preference

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The Slaughter of Girls Continues in India

Nearly 550,000 unborn girls are killed in India every year by sex-selective abortion, a newly released report from the Population Research Institute (PRI) has found. The findings highlight the shocking extent to which girls in India—and other parts of the world—continue to be selectively targeted

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We Celebrate People!

World Population Day is an occasion for the “Anti-People Crowd” to don sackcloth and ashes and bemoan human population growth.  Led by the U.N., demonstrators will march in major cities protesting overcrowding.  Today is the United Nations’ 30th annual “World Population Day.” Though the UN

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Holland’s Tax Code Punishes Families, Stay-at-home Moms

The Netherlands often prides itself on equality and tolerance, yet, written into the Dutch tax code are profound inequalities that place significantly heavier tax burdens on families with a stay-at-home parent. In the Netherlands, a traditional family with a sole breadwinner and a stay-at-home mom

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We Celebrate People!

World Population Day is an occasion for the “Anti-People Crowd” to don sackcloth and ashes and bemoan human population growth.  Led by the U.N., demonstrators

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