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The answer to this question is both simple and complex – and the fulfilment you feel in your life, whether you decide to have kids or not, depends on many complex factors. [Trudy Meehan and [...]

These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. [Anna North – Vox, 27 November 2023.] READ MORE

Work/life integration has flexibility at its heart because it recognizes no formula for how employees balance life and work. [Scott Cawood – Forbes, 27 November 2023.] READ MORE

Balancing work and family life may become easier for growing families in South Africa after a ground-breaking parental leave judgment in the High Court declared certain provisions of the Basic [...]

Between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU’s population decreased by 265 257 people, due to natural population changes (more deaths than births), as net [...]

The issue only gained short-lived public attention as Public Health Minister declared increasing the fertility rate to be on the national agenda and drew criticism for blaming the decision of [...]

In the United States, more than four in ten employees reported feeling “very” or “somewhat” lonely at work. Return-to-office is no cure, and meetings may make the problem worse. [Perceptyx, 8 [...]

Much of the retirement savings advice offered online, and even by financial professionals, is intended for a wide audience. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t take into account the needs that [...]

There are two factors behind Korea’s low birth rate. The first is the changed age and changed structure of society, where the country’s social atmosphere tends to discourage childbirth. Second, [...]

Japan took another step towards family law reform on 29 August 2023 when a Ministry of Justice subcommittee published an outline recommending several changes to decades-old civil codes. [Takeshi [...]