Day 1,789: natalist

Many pro-natalist policies come with effects that are valuable in themselves.

Why paying women to have more babies won’t work

Artwork of the day 
Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields
Jean-Francois Millet
Original Title: Paysans ramener chez eux un veau né dans les champs
Date: 1864
Style: Realism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Dimensions: 81.1 x 100.3 cm

Word of the day 
natalist: believing that it is important to have children in order to increase the number of people in a country, especially the number of people who are not immigrants (= people who have come to a different country in order to live there permanently):

Quote of the day
“One naive pro-natalist assumption is that because death is a bad thing, procreation, which can be considered the antonym of death is a god thing, but the naive defect in that assumption is that it ignores the obvious fact that procreation is an essential (and the ultimate cause) of death”

― Jiwoon Hwang