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80,000 children displaced due to Beirut explosions  Children UNICEF in Lebanon is working with counterparts and partners to scale up support to affected children and their families in order to respond to the immediate needs. [UNICEF, 6 August 2020.] | |||||
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Childless by choice – the West’s future Demographics Are we now in the era of technocratic global government, when whoever you vote for what you get are the same soulless ‘progressive’ schemes driven by the same out-of-touch ideological elites? [Will Jones - The Conservative Woman, 3 August 2020.] | |||||
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UK faces demographic time bomb as Covid baby bust looms Demographics As women delay pregnancy until the economic storm passes, an ageing workforce could affect the UK’s future debt sustainability [Lizzy Burden - The Telegraph, 30 July 2020.] | |||||
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India: Parents, the first and natural tutors Parents How low-income parents can start getting more involved in early childhood care and education [Namya Mahajan and Utsav Kheria - The Hindu, 3 August 2020.] | |||||
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Grandparents raising grandchildren Grandparents In the US, the number of grandparents raising grandchildren has increased over the past decade. Schools and nonprofits have stepped up to help with supports to children and grandparents, but that all changed with the coronavirus. [Mindy Todd - NPR, 30 July 2020.] | |||||
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US: Pandemic revolt challenges College reopening plans COVID-19 Even as colleges across the nation backpedal on their plans to reopen campuses this fall, they’re facing a rising tide of resistance from multiple constituencies about those plans. [Michael T. Nietzel - Forbes, 2 August 2020.] | |||||
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Decomposing changes in first birth trends Demographics In high-income countries, women and men born since the 1940s have delayed the birth of their first child, more of them have remained childless, and the timing of the first birth has become more diverse in these cohorts. The interaction between these three trends makes the research on first birth patterns more complex. [Ryohei Mogi - Vienna Institute of Demography, 22 July 2020.] | |||||
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The ‘new normal’ COVID-19 Typical scenes of families engaging in the kinds of activities that fill the days of a homebound population... Our world is suddenly different, but one thing stays the same. [State Farm] | |||||
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