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pronatalist, a. and n.|prəʊˈneɪtəlɪst|
Also pro-natalist.
[f. pro-1 5 a + natal a.1 and n.1 + -ist.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the encouragement of large families, esp. by the state; in favour of or advocating large families.
B. n. A pronatalist person.
1938Mod. Law Rev. II. 102 The suppression of abortion was part of the policy of the Alliance Nationale pour l'Accroissement de la Population Française, founded by J. Bertillon in 1896. (Three months after this had been founded, Paul Robin set up his counter organisation, ‘La Ligue de la Régéneration Humaine’, for advocating birth-control and attacking the pro-natalists.) Ibid. 105 In most countries and at most periods there have been pro-natalist policies directed at encouraging marriage and the raising of large families. 1953Population Stud. VII. 39 Even the most ambitious of French pro-natalists admit to-day that policy must be directed to encouraging the birth of a third and possibly a fourth child, rather than concentrating on the large family. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 818/2 Taken as a whole, Europeans in the Middle Ages were pronatalists. 1974Sci. Amer. Sept. 125/3 Between the 1930's and the 1950's there was..an increase in pronatalist intervention by the [U.S.] Government, particularly through the tax structure. 1976Nature 4 Nov. 7/1 More and more governments are reversing pro-natalist policies and instituting family planning programmes. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 415/1 Some countries are still avowedly pro⁓natalist.
So proˈnatalism, advocacy or encouragement, esp. by the state, of large families.
1938Mod. Law Rev. II. 105 The semi-official (e.g. municipal) encouragement of birth-control in the first half of the nineteenth century was severely shaken by the Franco-Prussian war, which was followed by an intensive pro-natalist campaign. Similarly, a further impetus to pro-natalism was given during the last war, and the policy is now an official one. 1974D. V. Glass in H. B. Parry Population i. v. 73 Japan, too, in spite of its high Gross Reproduction Rate, included pronatalism in its imperialist policy. |