This week on the assignment with me, Audie Cornish.

The push to have bigger families and more babies is part of a movement called pro-natalism.

They are freaking out about declining global fertility rates.

And that is real.

It's a phenomenon called birth-death.

What's behind this push to start a new baby boom?

Who are the voices pushing for a more

pro-family America? And what exactly does that mean? Listen to the assignment with me,

Audie Cornish, streaming now on your favorite podcast app.

Families, they can be your heart and your center.

They can also push your buttons like no one else.

Families are the center of our attention today.

I'm Marco Werman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

We'll go to Japan where there's a campaign to get fathers to step up because being a mom is tough.

Women do almost all the housework in child care, and it's not very attractive.

Plus, a daughter tells us about living in the shadow of her revolutionary African mother.

I was very, very small at the time, but we were put in jail.

My mother was on the ground. It was just out of a nightmare.

And what it's like to date, fall in love, and get married in the midst of war. We don't want to postpone our life. We want some good in our lives. Families and the ties that bind today here on the world.

This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler.

And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for joining us today.

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