Childlessness

Russia is moving forward with a proposal to impose significant fines for what it terms the "propaganda of deliberate refusal to bear children." This announcement was made by Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian Parliament, on his Telegram channel, indicating that deputies in the State Duma have begun deliberating on such a bill.

Analyzing Birth Trends: The Rise of Post-39 Births in Greece

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Brothers Rifat and Asim, both traders, lived in the Albanian coastal city of Durres in the first half of the last century, Asim born in 1900, and Rifat in 1910.

The older brother married a woman called Hatixhe and they were blessed with 15 children, of which 10 survived into adulthood. The last was born in 1946.

The Greek family is changing dramatically. More single-person households, fewer weddings, more divorces, more single-parent families, more births out of wedlock, apartment-sharing, cohabitation pacts, childless couples: The traditional nuclear family is constantly losing ground.

An article in the New York Times paints a bleak picture of the impact of the economic crisis in southern European countries with a substantial drop in birthrates, as an increasing number of women decide to not have children.