Various measures appear to encourage having more babies, from flexible working hours to removing the stigma from illegitimacy.
Were those tough conversations that he encourages having ones that you and your mother did have?
All the more so because people should be feeling encouraged, having managed to cock a snook at such dysfunctional politics.
What we need is fewer people living in fewer, smaller homes and tax policies encouraging having less, not more.
Yet cultures where team think is encouraged have their own difficulties, such as not speaking up when there are problems.
If sex was encouraged, having children was not.
The Quran does not make any explicit statements about the morality of birth control, but contains statements encouraging having children.
The interdependencies that globalisation has encouraged have raised hope that a new rising tide will lift all boats.
It also encourages having people over after to smoothly show off our shiny digs.
And that encouraging beginning has yet to properly dip.
