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While harm to identifiable others is generally agreed upon as a constraint on the morality of procreation , various views would constrain a right to procreate even further.
The second was the separation of sex from procreation , thanks to cheap, reliable contraception.
These arguments hinge on the rather ropey and profoundly Catholic notion that marriage exists solely as a vehicle for procreation.
The Most Reverend Peter Smith, Archbishop of Southwark, said: "The Catholic Church continues to support marriage understood by society for centuries as the significant and unique lifelong commitment between a man and a woman for their mutual well-being and open to the procreation and education of children.
The front page of today's Daily Mail has revealed that, in the past, Miliband may have had sex for something other than grim-faced duty-bound procreation.
If Europeans want to continue to fund the generous health care and pensions they have awarded themselves, then in the absence of a hitherto concealed fondness for procreation they will have to attract more workers from abroad.The ambitious young men and women who leave their homelands for better lives in Europe might be a good fit for countries facing long-term labour shortages.
Gulf regimes in effect subsidise procreation by providing free healthcare, utilities, schooling and until recently guaranteed employment.
If we start from the proposition that procreation is a normal household activity that will increase with wealth and diminish with increasing price, much of the demographic history of the 20th century makes sense, as do many cross-country variations in fertility.The "baby bust" of the late 1920s and the post-war "baby boom" can both be related to changes in actual and expected household income.
There would never be a male Pill, he said, because women probably rightly would not trust the men to take it.Observing the future from his sofa, where he liked to lie and think, he saw humans decisively uncoupling sex from procreation.
In 1798, when the world's population was about 1 billion, Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population", predicting that, thanks to mankind's enthusiastic procreation habits, by the middle of the 19th century there would no longer be enough food to go round.
In the fullness of time, perhaps men will think likewise and have some of the sperm of their carefree, mutation-free youths frozen in case they fancy a little procreation in their old age.
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The primary grammatical function of "procreation" is as a noun , referring to the process or act of producing offspring. Ludwig AI analysis of example sentences shows its use across diverse contexts, highlighting its role in discussions about reproduction, ethics, and societal norms.
Expression frequency: Very common
