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THE BIGGER THE BETTER

Master trend-spotter David Brooks has an intriguing piece on a new social movement - "natalism" - driven by families with three or more children. He argues that it's yet another factor that increasingly separates Right from Left, America from Europe:

"Politicians will try to pander to this group. They should know this is a spiritual movement, not a political one. The people who are having big families are explicitly rejecting materialistic incentives and hyperindividualism. It costs a middle-class family upward of $200,000 to raise a child. These people are saying money and ambition will not be their gods."

|||Clive|||http://clivedavis.blogspot.com/2004/12/bigger-better-master-trend-spotter.html|||12/07/2004 09:51:00 am|||||||||

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