With a woman I look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

China is struggling to undo the damage of its former one-child policy, according to a recent

report by China's national Bureau of Statistics, the country's population dropped by 850,000

people in 2022.

The last decline like that was due to the great famine of 1961.

This one's primarily due to a significant drop in the birth rate, which is only expected

to get worse.

According to one official, citizens have simply lost a willingness to have babies and are

delaying marriage and pregnancy.

But there's also a decline in the overall number of pre-menopausal women.

All of these things are marks of a culture whose people were taught to fear overpopulation

and to conform to the state while rejecting the natural order and gift of family.

Ideas and the policies that flow from them have consequences, even if not immediately

apparent, policies that are opposed to life will eventually have significant consequences

over the course of time.

Not only for individuals, but for entire societies.

But the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.